Word: revolutionism
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1968. For those who lived through that annus mirabilis, that year of wonders, there has never been a time quite like it. Newspaper front pages and television screens were alive with the unforgettable images of war, revolution, social experimentation and cultural exuberance. The scenes are permanently etched in the national...
The year had a kind of Aristotelian logic, the proportions of tragedy. Hope begot death, revolution begot counterrevolution.
In 1967, Haight-Ashbury hosted theSummer of Love. In 1969, upstate New York became the Woodstock Nation. In 1968, a year bracketed by marijuana smoke and good vibrations, the world -- especially the world of youth -- exploded into the Theater of Revolution. Chicago. Paris. Prague. Mexico City. Berkeley and ) the London...
The real forces of revolution were anger, frustration -- and demography. In the U.S., rage focused on the impersonal machinery of a military adventure that the post-World War II generation did not support and that few seemed capable of affecting. Rage also targeted an inert political system, manned by the...
Dislocating cultural rebellions are not unusual, especially when population curves bulge and mature. The difference in 1968 was that the whole world seemed to be in the midst of a great proletarian revolution, determined to establish an alternative elite complete with attendant counterculture. The Beatle George Harrison voiced his side...