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Associate Professor of Economics Lawrence B. Lindsey, a supply-side economist who has been a vocal proponent of lower taxes, will become the associate director of the office of policy development, an executive branch agency which advises the president on the economy and other domestic issues...
...they did, even the most brilliant among them. Janis Joplin. Jimi Hendrix. Jim Morrison. Burnt-out martyrs to the cause, done in by drugs and alcohol. The nobility of their nihilism is, today, a nightmare, the dark side of the force set free in the '60s. The paeans to the generation's liberties echo dolorously, as Love has truly become as strong as Death. "Sometimes," ( Eric Clapton said recently, "you need to hear some harmonic softeners, some quiet, to kind of quench the fire and calm yourself." But the fire cannot be fully extinguished. Though they abhor its destructiveness, those...
...nation pulsed with music and proclamation, with rages and moral pretensions. "This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius," sang the cast of Hair, which came to Broadway in April. Janis Joplin expressed one side of the year fairly well: ecstatic and self-destructive simultaneously, wailing to the edges of the universe, flirting with the abyss. Joplin, who died of a heroin overdose in 1970, memorably sang Me and Bobbie Magee, the 1969 Kris Kristofferson song that contained a perfect line of 1968 philosophy, "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose...
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 of the civil war in February 1968. "It doesn't really matter about the older people now because they're finished anyway," he said. "There's still going to be years of having all these old fools who are governing us and who are bombing us and doin' all that...
...protesters are now on the other side, the courageous free spirit more likely to be conservative than liberal. It is they who now lay claim to the protections of free speech, who can claim that morality is on their side. Even The Dartmouth Review claims the privileges of the oppressed...