Word: standardism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This year, as Harvard and the nation have witnessed a resurgence of campus activism, comparisons with earlier protestors have intensified. To some, the 1960s are the example today's student activists should strive to follow, but to others, they are an irrelevant and unfair standard, a 30-year-old albatross around the necks of today's student activists...
...unfair standard for today's students because...
...Zinn says holding today's activists to the standard of the '60s can create the wrong impression--that students today are more apathetic than their predecessors...
...Zinn echoes Morgan, saying protestors shouldn't see the '60s as a standard for radicalism to which all later activists should be held...
...would knock on my door and when I opened hewould push me aside and rush to my bookcase to seewhat new books I had bought," Epps says. "He wasintellectually precocious by any standard...