Word: 60s
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...possibility that Levine was to be chair of the Department further prompted the CSAAS to oppose his appointment. Due to the principle of self-determination we still feel that the Afro-American Studies Department, an institution made possible by the struggles of Afro-Americans in the streets in the '60s, should remain under the leadership of Black people--particularly in this crucial building stage. We found later that he was not being considered for the chair...
What happened to Marshall? "I could not quite accept the idea of mankind being all alone," he says, referring to the philosophical premises of his revolutionary years. "In the '60s we all flirted around with Marxism. But clearly there are powers beyond those solely generated by human societies. I learned a lot of things in jail too." In 1971 Marshall spent two months in Terminal Island Prison in Los Angeles and six more at Clearwater Prison camp in Washington State on a contempt of court conviction. "At Terminal Island I wouldn't shave, so they...
...whatever reason, public interest in incest as a subject seems to have increased. Hollywood provides a good index; one survey shows there were six movies about incest in the 1920s, 79 in the '60s. The numbers are still growing. Recent films on the subject include Chinatown, Luna and the made-for-TV Flesh and Blood. But probing a sensitive subject for better understanding is one thing, and justifying incest is quite another...
...UNIVERSAL MORGAN transcends the setting of the story, an achievement all the more remarkable because the author has set her novel specifically, almost immovable, in time and place. The Gowers live in Baltimore of the late '60s and '70s, and each chapter has a date for a title. While the externals of '70s life--Master Charge, the Brady Bunch, straight-leg jeans, and Tab--wander through the book, they do so like ships adrift without any place to anchor. In fact, these details act like red-herring clues to the insoluable detective story of Morgan's psyche. Morgan seems even...
...Perhaps we were so enthusiastic because censorship was so strong under the military government in the '60s," Yoon says. "We thought journalism was the main opportunity to make changes in the society, to provoke people to thinking about things they took for granted. We managed to start a new trend in journalism, putting out politically serious newspapers instead of the popular sensationalistic publications that abounded...