Word: longhairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Said James E. Hammond, director of the Monterey office: "We feel that if a man has shoulder-length hair and his type of work is such that it requires public contact and the employers will not hire him, he has voluntarily restricted his chances of finding work." Hence the longhair is not entitled to unemployment insurance. The state office in Sacramento is backing Hammond. Only 3% of the employers surveyed want to hire girls who wear midi or micro-mini skirts either, but for the moment they are chivalrously being kept on the unemployment rolls...
...like to die. PETER: That is absolutely not true, think he knew, going in, that it wasn't true. I think he knew he was making violence in such an acceptable form that we would all groove on it as voyeurs. I was put down by my longhair, freaked-out friends, who said, "Man, you have violence in Easy Rider." But the violence I put in Easy Rider was unacceptable because it was unexpected. The violence in The Wild Bunch was expected and totally acceptable. When it is acceptable, you have already dealt with it in some past experience...