Word: feste
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Close. Try Columbia University, at last weekend's Reality Fest...
...whole Fest was a false storefront for a particularly conspicuous expression of eighties values. The organizers of the Reality Fest reversed the sixties ethos, putting the means (drugs) before the ends (enlightenment and love). Back in the sixties, young people had some positive beliefs about drugs like L.S.D. Hallucinogens were a new frontier, something the Establishment had not discovered, thus something that could allow youth to reach a higher level of understanding than their stuffy elders...
Students know this. We are all able to see the element of absurdity in the conflict of sixties youthful idealism and the eighties middle-aged complacency. The fervor of today's youth is tempered by cynicism. Not even the most drugaddled mind at the Reality Fest believed that the event was for a good cause...
...REALITY FEST was not a hardened, jaded assortment of eighties youth out of the pages of Less Than Zero or Bright Light, Big City. There was a jubilant esprit de corps that arose from the irony of the situation. Here was a new twist on an old and no longer meaningful pastime--"mass bakage" in the thinly disguised form of an idealism dead for 20 years. The festival offered fresh entertainment in the mild lampooning of flower power, a perfect showcase for cynically irreverent eighties...
Princeton won a ho-hum error-fest in the heart of New Jersey, slipping in two touchdowns among a downpour of fumbles, miscues and general ineptitude...