Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...church. She looks up and-whoa, driver, this bus is loaded with hippies. Wrong. It's packed with them, strange cats in flowers, feathers, frock coats, velvet vests, beads, bangles, headbands, hair out to here, and everybody passing joints. Far out. This thing is a rolling time capsule, Age of Aquarius stuff, very 1960s. So the lady sits down next to this dude in old Army fatigues, and after a few blocks she says to him. "We don't see many hippies around here any more." And he says to her, I swear, "Lady, at these fares...
...decade are so heavy, they lack the old ring of verismo. But this bright and mellow spring Sunday just might turn out to be, well, different, you know, together. Milos Forman, the Czech-born director (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest), trying to turn the Aquarian Age stage hit Hair into a movie, needs an authentic circa 1968 "bein" as backdrop for crucial scenes. Those affairs having gone the way of peace symbols and miniskirts, he has to wing it. So Forman's munchkins hire six rock bands, reserve the twelve-acre Sheep Meadow in Central Park...
...largest number of pilgrims marching through time and beer cans this morning are too young to remember much of the 1960s. "That age was a bit early for me, so I didn't really know how to dress for this," confesses Mark Kaplan, 23, out of Atlanta, who adds that a more knowledgeable friend lent him the striped Indian cotton shirt he is wearing. A lady companion confesses further: "We're really just waiting for the tennis court we've reserved...
Many of the juiciest conclusions of the book have been, as it were, leaked to the world by Gail Sheehy, author of the best-selling Passages, which set forth the basic thesis enunciated at greater length and in more detail here: that all people go through an age-linked series of developmental stages in adult life, each with its specific psychological and social tasks and each the necessary base on which to begin the next phase of adult development...
...FIRST reaction to all this is: so what? Does anyone really care what one is supposed to do at forty or what the developmental tasks and integrations of the period are? As Levinson points out, knowing more about what happens to men at what age makes it easier to sort out one's own life, realize one is not alone, and makes it easier for society to appropriately deal with its citizens of all ages and utilize their unique resources...