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Color has long functioned as a cultural mood ring. There was the rainbow cacophony that defined the free-love, footloose '60s and the avocados and vegetal yellows of the '70s, which style experts attribute to environmental empathy spawned by Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Precisely how these trends catch on has always been hazy; the trail of bread crumbs is typically detectable only in hindsight. But there's big business in forecasting the color of the moment. A DuPont survey found that 39% of prospective car buyers would buy a completely different brand if unable to obtain their color preference...
...until we have achieved his vague idea of “victory.” This being so, we could anticipate this war to drag out even further if he won—years, not months. Maybe then our younger generations will take the place of the burnt out 60s hippies in truly protesting what’s going on. And maybe then we can give them a counterculture that would rival that of the Vietnam days—when music, literature, and visual art could beg for Love while underscoring the horrors of needless bloodshed. I like John Mayer...
Graves: Take the drug issue. It was much more leniently rated some decades ago than it is now because parents realize that drugs have a much more serious place in their children's lives. In the 60s and 70s, drugs appeared to be more of a fun, temporary thing. So drugs are rated harsher...
This is not the America I have known and loved since the '60s and have visited dozens of times. That a loving family can be emotionally disturbed by party politics, in America of all places, shows how tolerance is being destroyed, leading the civilized world to disaster. I live in a country where real democracy was suspended for two generations, but where for the past almost 40 years, loving and united families voted for opposite political extremes, and where groups of opposing political supporters crossed the street to greet each other. May God bring back sanity to America. A.J.R. Soares...
...some of Stevens' associates, there are signs of resignation. Longtime friend Jack Roderick (the two men once practiced law together in the '60s) sounded subdued when reached at his Anchorage home. "It's sad," he said. "It's just sad on a personal level." Roderick, however, defended his old friend's motivations. "No question he showed bad judgment to get associated with a guy like Bill Allen. He got sloppy," said Roderick. "But he didn't intentionally do any of this...