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On "Happiness Is A Warm Gun," Lennon was painting the world in despairing terms, and one of the central metaphors he used in that song was his guilt at the way he had treated his ex-wife Cynthia. He ended up that song advocating suicide, smack and nihilism. This time...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: Beatles Abbey Road | 10/21/1969 | See Source »

But his attitude is not the innocently tolerant one that it first appears. He would grant Americans freedom of "political ideas", but he draws the line at "political action" tainting of "SDS, Communism, pacifism, nihilism, and treachery." When critics suggested that Ichord considered peace a Communist plot, the chairman quickly...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: By Any Other Name | 2/24/1969 | See Source »

Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco broke off his uneasy five-year ad venture into liberalism last week by clamping a state of emergency on his increasingly restive nation. The move came after fiery student demonstrations in Madrid and Barcelona; the regime charged that students had been misled by "wicked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: End of the Experiment | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

Sir: The three astronauts, representatives of the Establishment reading Genesis while spinning in space, recording scientific data for the ages to come, with faith in God and their fellow scientists, show up the puerile nihilism and obscenity, the physical and mental shabbiness of our youthful dropouts like a bright light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 24, 1969 | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

Furthermore, if you don't believe it is difficult--indeed if you don't care enough to show that it is difficult for you--there will be a price to pay. For nothing nourishes nihilism on the left more than the faithlessness of liberals to their own values. If those...

Author: By Timothy D. Gould, | Title: An Open Letter to Liberals at Harvard From An Unrestful Radical | 1/9/1969 | See Source »

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