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...chair of the next 12 trials, and his clarity and eloquence (he called Nazi Germany "an infernal combination of a lunatic asylum and a charnel house") led to 142 convictions. Later, as a lawyer and a professor, he scrutinized public officials, and spoke out against McCarthyism and the Vietnam...
...second great upheaval was the 1960s. Again, a rupture opened with the past; received standards and values were under siege, this time in the ferment of civil rights, the sexual revolution and Vietnam. In the arts the rumbling had started in the '50s, when Elvis Presley got everybody all shook up, when Jack Kerouac took to the road and Allen Ginsberg began to howl. In 1969, in a muddy field in New York's Catskill Mountains, more than 400,000 of their spiritual heirs gathered at the Woodstock Festival to stake their claim as a new generation...
...years, beginning in 1960, "Polly" Bunting, as she was fondly known, was a figure of stability at a time of great unrest at the University. As students took over University Hall and protested the Vietnam War, Bunting-Smith established a reputation as a Radcliffe devotee, an administrator interested in bettering women's education both at the undergraduate and graduate levels...
When Jiang Zemin, president of the People's Republic of China, made Harvard a stop on his cross-country tour, nearly 5,000 demonstrators swarmed Cambridge's streets, creating crowds surpassed in size only by protests during the Vietnam War. (See related story, page...
Still, such an inter-generational comparison is futile. Many of those who actively protested the Vietnam War had a great deal at stake--the danger facing them and their loved ones was real and immediate. Our generation, however, grew up during a relatively peaceful period, marked by the end of the Cold War. We are in the midst of an unprecedented economic boom dating back to 1983 (save the brief recession of 1991 which cost George Bush his job); the stock market is soaring; inflation and unemployment are low. And rapid technological advances have made daily life more efficient...