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...highs reached by a century’s worth of pop music?The title of Toronto band Metric’s second album does justice to this longing frustration: “Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?” The ’60s counterculture had Haight-Ashbury, the punks had the Bowery—so what do we get? The rise of irony in indie rock can be regarded as a direct reaction to this modern feeling of disappointment. Somewhere along the way, insincerity and sarcasm became de rigueur when dealing with the perceived futility...
...ROUND THE WORLDBefore taking the podium, Brokaw presented the trailer for “1968,” a two-hour History Channel documentary based on a portion of “BOOM!”The screen displayed Brokaw, standing in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district, where he stood 40 years ago when it was “the center of the world for the counterculture.” It cut first to a clip of Tom Brokaw as a strapping young journalist, then to a dramatic retelling of the assassination of John F. Kennedy...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, then left the East Coast in 1972. “I had been at Harvard for six years. I really wanted to get away,” he says. “I had been reading Beat literature, so I went to Haight-Ashbury instead of going to Europe to study with some German composer. I went the opposite direction.” It would be a time of immense creative growth for Adams. “I spent my twenties in wanderlust being ill defined. I didn’t write my first...
...traveled to Mexico to take mushrooms. Within a few years, he had launched his crusade for America to "turn on, tune in, drop out." In other words, you can draw a woozy but vivid line from the sedate offices of J.P. Morgan and Time Inc. in the '50s to Haight-Ashbury in the '60s to a zillion drug-rehab c enters in the '70s. Long, strange trip indeed...
...their teenagers' cars that capture up to 300 hours of data, downloadable onto a personal computer. Even more intrusively, the software can trigger alarms when the teenager exceeds a certain speed. But automakers would find it too expensive and unpopular to routinely install long-term recorders, insists W.R. Haight, an EDR expert and the director of San Diego's Collision Safety Institute: "Only paranoid alarmist pinheads suggest this technology could be expanded to spy on our everyday driving...