Word: classe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does not. The straight middle-class American breadwinner, secure and affluent beyond the dreams of his grandparents or most of his contemporaries elsewhere in the world, Mr. Jones of Dylan's mocking lyric, finds himself in a world more surreal than a moonscape. He looks behind, and realizes that his children are not following. At a frightening distance, in their own arcane pastures of the mind, the young strip and ululate and make love to the accompaniment of manic cacophonies. Even in the Joneses' own backyard, thrusting up between the roses and the hollyhocks, a sharp eye may spot...
These are the pop drugs?the drugs widely taken by middle-class young people, most of whom are white. Their use is growing; marijuana smoking, in particular, is increasing. (Heroin use, by contrast, remains comparatively static.) "For the first time," says California Psychopharmacologist Dr. Leo Hollister, "pot is entrenched in our society, with untold millions using the drug. We have passed the point of no return...
...real or imagined new awareness of self crowd a teen-ager's mind when he gets on the drug kick. With chilling casualness, a 17-year-old, starting college this fall, describes for TIME his three years of drug taking. Brought up in the East in a middle-class suburban family, he was sent to a private school in Colorado because his parents hoped the experience would buck up his sagging attitudes and grades. He obviously knows some of the perils inherent in drugs, but is alarmingly heedless of others, notably LSD, which can be extremely dangerous. He graduated...
...Elliott Gould) and Alice (Dyan Cannon), after being let in on the news, are initially puzzled, then attracted by this easy permissiveness until, at film's end, the two couples wind up in bed together at a Las Vegas hotel. There they seem to come to their middle-class senses in a denouement that is the biggest cop-out since Sidney Poitier appeared as the world's whitest black man in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Mazursky's direction is impersonal and, at best, functional; his idea of good cinematography is getting everyone in focus...
...event is the 28th Coast Guard Academy Inviational Sunday morning with the Hap Moore Trophy going to the winner. The competition tests the depth and versatility of the teams through races in three different kinds of boats-Raven Class sloops with spinnakers, keel knockabouts, and international 12-foot dinghies...