Word: lennons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Remembering Lennon...
...growing up in the '60s, the Beatles represented all the excitement, hopes and dreams of my generation. The future was boundless; it could only get better and better; and no words can recapture the feeling of being alive in that time. Now, with the death of John Lennon [Dec. 22], I feel that the spirit of the '60s is over...
...very few idols; now I have even fewer. Losing Lennon is like losing a member of my family...
...John Lennon, 40, brilliant musician and imaginative wordsmith who, as the Beatles' poet laureate and primus inter pares, stressed the themes of peace and love, helping not only to touch but to transform an entire generation...
...indeed often golden. President-elect Ronald Reagan has so far, often to the chagrin of the press, shown an admirable reluctance to grab all of the many chances he gets to sound off on just about anything. Given the possible alternatives, Yoko Ono's fiat that John Lennon's passing be marked with ten minutes of silence around the world was inspired. In truth, the day of the telecast experiment would be a perfect time for the nation to reflect generally-and silently-on the whole disgruntling phenomenon of superfluous talk...