Word: present
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some respects I find the present generation of university students more appealing. They are more open-minded and individualistic as well as less prone to social, religious, and racial prejudice. When I was a college student in the 1940s, there prevailed in this country quite rigid codes of social behavior and personality models one was expected to emulate, both of which, coming from Europe, I found ridiculous and annoying. During the past 30 years, in part due to strong influences emanating from continental Europe, American youth has emancipated itself from these conventions...
...compared to the students of the 1940s and 1950s, the present generation of students seems less happy. Undergraduates then laughed much more readily; they seemed less anxious and suspicious of their elders. It first struck me in the mid-1960s how difficult it has become to elicit laughter from a classroom. This is no longer quite true today, but the spontaneous gaiety seems gone...
...process of evolving in the 1930s. We had been more or less Marxists during the early period. Gradually, we found ourselves questioning Marxism itself as a viable doctrine theoretically, or as a doctrine that explained political activity. The period of gradual change was extended up to the present time. We started focusing more on questions than on answers...
...They portray Trotsky as a man living very much in the present and future, unafraid but realistic," Rodney Dennis, manuscript curator at the library, said yesterday...
...Although the University refused to make its intentions clear, present evidence indicates that Harvard University is not proceeding with conversion of these units into offices, and the Tenants Committee has therefore withdrawn its complaint," the letter states...