Word: woodstocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made the Top Ten on the country charts. His new album, To Lefty From Willie, a tribute to the late Texas singer-songwriter Lefty Frizzell, stood at No. 5 last week-one notch behind Ol' Waylon. Meanwhile, Nelson's annual Fourth of July picnics have become mini-Woodstock festivals, drawing crowds...
...newly radicalized. Draft cards and American flags went up in smoke. The Spring Mobilization to End the War in Viet Nam brought together hundreds of thousands of protesters in San Francisco and New York. Dow Chemical's recruiters were driven off campus. Ahead for the movement lay Woodstock, Chicago, Kent State, the Days of Rage...
...delusion to think 1 that the country is finished with what sused to be called Woodstock Nation. Pierre Joseph Proudhon warned about "the fecundity of the unexpected." The present comparative quiet probably will not last. Issues such as nuclear energy, the arms race (the neutron bomb), the environment, the economy, unemployment and the urban underclass all lie in wait for anyone who approaches the future complacently. It would of course be difficult for history to duplicate the long, wild hallucination of the '60s. But Rahv's ten-year rule applies to historical pauses as well as upheavals...
Social injustice, materialism, economic inequality-I always thought these were the targets, not the goals, of the Woodstock generation's cultural revolution...
...Woodstock. This Academy-Award winning documentary can be justifiably dubbed the definitive rock film, with a nod of acknowledgment to the Mayles brothers' Gimme Shelter. The dazzling galaxy of performers who rocked and rolled the assembled 400,000 earned that designation by itself: everybody from John Sebastian to Country Joe and the Fish to Santana put in an appearance over the course of the three-day festival to end all festivals. Michael Wadleigh's integration of crowd scene footage into the basic frame work of the gig-by-gig sequence of bands has never been matched by any subsequent film...