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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...depressed. He tries to organize depression and clation into a sort of cycle. Both make him uncomfortable, and he likes speed because it sort of rounds off the corners. Or that's what he said. But right then, at that moment, what he really wanted was some grass, because he had an abcess in his mouth that was moving down his neck. It stood out like a blue neon log, almost three inches long. Roger went to the free Clipic on Mt. Auburn St., but they don't do dental work. Nobody in fact does dental work. So all Roger...

Author: By David R. Ignatius, | Title: Freaks Living in Our Streets: Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom | 7/2/1970 | See Source »

Ever since four blithe spirits from Liverpool turned the world upside down, the most visible pop singers have been those who have dealt with contemporary moods and issues. Simultaneously trend setters and chroniclers of an era, they sing of grass, alienation and oppression. The very names of those who have made it are slogans of rebellion: the Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, Wayne Newton . . . Wait a minute-Wayne Newton? Isn't he that big, baby-faced panda, that tenor with adenoidal arrest and the grin that seems to tell you he just made all-state halfback at Waycross High? Where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: What Ever Happened To Baby Wayne? | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

...most revolutionary consciousness is to be found among the most ruthlessly exploited classes, animals trees, water, air, and grass."- Gary Shyder...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, | Title: Learning From the Vietnamese | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

...FRIEND picked me up at the San Diego airport last Christmas and drove me 15 miles to where I live. As I got out of the car, I saw my little brother watering the green grass under a blue...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, | Title: Learning From the Vietnamese | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, MINNEAPOLIS. A Student strike is in progress. In front of the student union, a rock band is playing and a crowd lounges on the grass in a holiday mood. But the atmosphere is even more festive and more exciting inside. For here, the unique heady sense of joint action has taken hold, the camaraderie of the common cause. Tables where coeds sell pamphlets-Marx, Marcuse, Che. Other tables with various buttons and badges of dissent. Posters. Proclamations-demands addressed to the President of the United States, to the Governor of the state, the spelling a trifle erratic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THOUGHTS ON A TROUBLED EL DORADO | 6/22/1970 | See Source »

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