Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some 20% of Americans who enjoy accurate internal alarm clocks that wake them automatically" all have to be under seven years of age...
...part of our time." Whether or not he will be, I cannot predict. I can see no reason why he should be. People were enjoying sex and seeking pleasure long before Hefner made his appearance. Hedonism is one of the oldest and most common of all philosophies. In every age it has appealed primarily to men of the lowest character and intellect, and one of its most celebrated practitioners was a man named Nero...
Similarly, there are songs that spin such sentiments as "Happy Birthday, Abie Baby, emanci-mother-fuckin'-pator of the slaves" or LBJ took the IRT and found the youth of America on LSD." Oh, and there are songs about sodomy, hashish and the age of aquarius. As you can see, there's a lot of good stuff here...
...except those from Shakespeare) are sufficiently self-conscious to be repulsive. The title song actually advises us to Do your own thing/ Find you own dream/ Dig your own soul/ Or dig your own hole and die." This is nothing compared to "The Middle Years," a paean to middle-age that is a trifle too reminiscent of Birdie's "Kids" and The Girl Who Came to Supper's (a 1963 flop) "How do Do do, Middle Age." If nothing else, Your Own Thing shows exactly how big a sell-out Hair could have been...
...rock had to be creative, and each generation of high school kids grew out of liking it--or rather, they were pushed out. But now Mick Jagger throws a party that Lord Harlech comes to. What have you got? People who are going to drag rock music into middle age with them...