1960s

Colleges Change As Liberal Professors Retire

New York Times | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Liberal Education, 1960s, Liberals Academia, Baby Boomers, Liberal Universities, Liberal Colleges, Politics News

When Michael Olneck was standing, arms linked with other protesters, singing "We Shall Not Be Moved" in front of Columbia University's library in 1968...

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Con Games: Party Like It's 1969

Michael Conniff | Posted 06.17.2008 | Green

Read More: Hydrogen, Environment, Golf, Fashion, Clinton, Bill Clinton, 1960s, 1969, Green News
Michael Conniff

My "1969" jeans are nothing more than a sham, a fraud, a stonewashed Watergate metaphor for the previously stoned.

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On the Campus: Forty Years Later

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 06.10.2008 | Media

Read More: Columbia University, 1960s, 1968, Changing Times, New York Times Magazine, Media News
Amitai Etzioni

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Forty Years of Groovy Single Gals

Sheila Weller | Posted 06.06.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Sex and the City, 1960's, Girls Like Us, Entertainment News
Sheila Weller

Here -- along the lines of a French/English, English/French Pocket Webster's -- is a brief two-way translation between today's Blackberried babes and those first-generation Quixotes from 1968.

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Sock It to Me!

Danny Miller | Posted 06.03.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: George Schlatter, 1960s, Television, Laugh-In, Nbc, Dick Martin, Entertainment News
Danny Miller

It's been 40 years ago since Laugh-In premiered. Frankly, I'm not sure it withstands the test of time, but no one can deny that it broke a hell of a lot of barriers when it came on the air.

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"It's the 60s, Stupid"

Steven M. Gillon | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: 1960s, John McCain, 2008 Election, Obama McCain, Barack Obama, Politics News
Steven M. Gillon

While Iraq and a struggling economy may dominate the public debate, the real fight will be over the unresolved conflicts of the 1960s.

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