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...audience of today, these characters seem like a commune of dropouts, and Saroyan qualifies as the first articulate hippie. They are deliberate outcasts in search of saintly goodness, and their symbol, Kitty Duval (Susan Tyrrell), the stock prostitute with the heart of gold, has a luminous inner purity. When cops enter the bar and beat the black jazz pianist bloody, the scene has a truncheon-like impact that was totally lacking in 1939, when such events seemed isolated from any social context with which the audience was familiar. In those days, Saroyan was known as the "crazy...
...earth beauty and ones that give you "practical information on two-strategies of survival if national affairs get funny: Hiding and running." There are toys, lists of schools filled with the ecstasy of education, books that teach you how to make a whole environment out of any environment from commune to suburb. The reviewers of the products talk to you, not at you, and respect the things they are reviewing, whether it be Kalibab Boots or Marshall McLuhan...
...anyone honestly seek respect for a new culture that replaces hypocrisy with copout, infidelity with phallic worship, uninvolvement with license, apathy with conscientious destructive dissent, permissiveness with rebellion, physical violence with emotional violence, money with adulterated beggary, a dead God with astrology, an empty home with a teeming commune, jealousy with conformism, decadent old ideology with decadent new ideology, and Ignorance I with Ignorance...
...their life styles, many of the freshmen emulate hippie attitudes. More than a fifth have tried pot, and more than half believe that it should be legal. A third said that they would like to try living in a commune. Both premarital sex and legalized abortion were approved by large majorities, including most of the freshmen interviewed at Roman Catholic Notre Dame...
...STORY of "les evenements" is old now. Everyone in Paris talks about it in the same way they talk about the Commune of '71 or the Revolution...