Word: 70s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...divides the elect into three teams and moves them around the field with the firm assurance of an offensive line coach. Group A is ordered to "mill around" behind one of the movie's stars, Suzette Charles, 18, as she lip-syncs a song. Getting solipsistic '70s people to mill properly is not as easy as it might sound. "Hell no, we won't go." quips a recalcitrant young man, face painted red, white and blue. Some mill too fast, others too slowly: still others stare into the camera when they should be ignoring it. Italia...
Jogging is a very '70s pursuit, and Hausman's goons have to shoo away armies of gum-soled fitness freaks whenever they get in Hair's way. Most are gracious, and one even pitches in to help tether a 40-ft. red phallic balloon for the crew. But a thirtyish intruder does not take it well...
...course, a little creative film editing and nobody will know the difference. Despite the best efforts of Forman and his helpers to re-create the spirit of the '60s, the spirit of the '70s keeps intruding, striding through the day in bright blue Adidas. Too many telltale Perrier bottles, expensive French jeans, $30 blow-dry haircuts. And while 10,000 visitors to the Sheep Meadow this day at least try to recall a simpler age of love, peace and tolerance, hundreds of citizens who live near the park file complaints of one sort or another with the local...
After World War II, when thousands of undergraduates were studying under Government grants, universities did not encourage stopping out. In the '60s, another deterrent to would-be leave-takers arose: the draft. But in the less urgent '70s, many administrators have come to promote a year off. "Even those who do work they would never want to do again -vending pretzels, for example-find a year or two off to be a positive experience," notes Princeton Assistant Dean Richard G. Williams. Adds Yale Dean of Undergraduate Studies Martin Griffin: "Students come back with at least marginally clearer focus...
Because most of the 1400 black Harvard graduates attended Harvard in the late '60s and early '70s, times of conflict and protest at the University, it is possible that many of them chose not to attend the convention because they "do not feel a close affinity" with Harvard, Ferguson said...