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...Newport. The fad seems to have blossomed on the West Coast, in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and has reached its full glory along Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue, the Fifth Avenue of the counterculture. There the variety is dazzling, further enhanced by the almost universal adoption of the braless look. Manhattan's lively East Village is another showcase for the undershirt underground, but the shirts are no longer the exclusive property of the kids. In the swank summer resorts of East Hampton, Southampton and Stonington, Captain America shirts are showing up. At the America's Cup races...
...apathy in cleaning up our environment here? Aren't the so-called urban blight, the housing non-conditions, the racial disorders and poverty in America just as murderous as the war in Viet Nam? Come on! It's time we stopped throwing each issue around like a fad, soon leaving it in favor of another...
...Fancy or Fad. To some critics, the environmental movement resembles a children's crusade of opportunistic politicians, zealous Ivy Leaguers, longhaired ecoactivists and scientists who speak too sweepingly and too gloomily. The D.A.R. labels the movement "one of the subversive element's last steps." Members of that element, the ladies add, have "gone after the military and the police, and now they're going after our parks and playgrounds." In the same vein, several newspapers from Alabama to Alaska solemnly stressed the happenstance that Earth Day (April 22) fell on Lenin's birthday...
...plot notion hardly impresses serious critics like University of Chicago Economist Milton Friedman. Instead, they view the environmental movement as a mere fad that will soon vanish, like the War on Poverty. Friedman also decries the tendency of some crusaders to cast big industrial corporations* as "evil devils who are deliberately polluting the air." He argues that the real source of most pollution is the consumer...
What makes the flag fad even worse is that the flag is becoming exclusively the property of a group that has abandoned the Constitution, especially the Bill of Rights, in an effort to "preserve democracy." Would those who founded this country have chosen a flag if they knew it would be used as a justification for beating up college students in New York...