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...latest version of the fad started among the flower children of California, for whom its appeal is easy to understand. For one thing, it is pure psychedelia. And tie-dying is cheap. For little added cost, it can turn a 32 cents T shirt into strawberry fields forever, or an old pair of jeans into a tiptoe through the tulips.The fashion spread rapidly through the rock world; many of its stars now sleep in tie-dyed sheets (Janis Joplin has a set in satin). Pop singer John Sebastian habitually turns himself out in tie-dye from chin to tennis shoes...
...many traditional tunes, they've failed to invest them with a sense of rootedness. The songs do not seem connected to their cultural traditions, be it Appalachian string music, Irish jug band music or African-American blues. Even when they play a great tune, as in the traditional "Wildwood Flower," the solos are surprisingly tame to the point of boredom...
White cloth napkins and tablecloths, candles and elaborate flower displays altered the dining room's atmosphere. A small band entertained as 200 Currier House residents dressed up for the occasion, drank wine before dinner, and were waited on by white gloved dining staff for the two-hour event...
...been standing outside the flower shop when the police arrived, the students said...
Marxist thought rebounded in the late 1960s as flower children and disenchanted youth sought a new ideology. "People turned to Marx because it offered a kind of coherence that rivaled mainstream economics yet was fundamentally different," says Barker Professor of Economics Stephen A. Marglin...