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...permissive sex; many of us reject the youih culture categorically. Most of us, however, occupy the unhappy position of being undecided: we want to enjoy, but deep down in our pre-Spock psyches, we feel we shouldn't. We puff marijuana at parties when we would be happier with Scotch or gin; we don bell-bottoms when we would rather be in tweeds; we jump into affairs when we would rather be at home in bed-asleep. The visible result often is a compromise: the staid Wall Street lawyer, in vest, rep tie and cuffed trousers in the daytime...
...marriages staggering. Sex is probably the same for us as it is for everyone else past puberty. The difference is that our expectations are now those of the young, while many of our marriages were formed according to the rules of the old. The over-40s may be no happier, but they usually are more resigned or more accepting; the under-30s may be frustrated too, but they at least are not caught in the same tight bind of mixed emotions. Our views on religion are scarcely less confused. Is God dead? Don't ask us. For the majority...
...changed a little, since I now felt safer in Roxbury than in New York. But I wasn't any happier about seeing drunks sleeping in the streets. And maybe my memory isn't as vivid as I had always thought it was, but this time New York seemed like rivers of filth flowing down one way streets between canyons of concrete buildings...
...opportunity to make choices, the availability of options. It doesn't say that everybody must have a certain income or live a certain way. But it says that the opportunity is there, and the choices are there. If he chooses to live in the Bowery, he may be happier than the guy who lives out in the suburbs. But at least that's not predetermined for him by a set of circumstances over which he has no control. I don't care who people want to associate with, but he ought to have the choice to decide...
...then another veteran got up to the microphone, and I was laughing again. This man wanted to speak to us about those NLF flag-wavers in this country. "These people would be happier in other countries." The crowd agreed vehemently. "Some say that 'Love it or leave it' is reactionary. I see nothing wrong with it." Someone pumped a "Love It or Leave It" sign up and down for all he was worth...