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...Cocker will inevitably be compared to Woodstock, and it will suffer by the comparison; it lacks the dynamism and sense of history of the original. But if Joe Cocker cannot compete with the best, it has enough talent and energy, and an abundance of sensational sounds, for its audience to sit back and, like the old song says, let the good times roll...
Oscars were also given to GlendaJackson in Women in Love for best actress, Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion for the best foreign film and Woodstock for the best feature documentary. Special awards were given to Orson Welles, Ingmar Bergman, the Beatles, Lillian Gish and Frank Sinatra...
Such notions, though, did Barr no good in the new era of the Woodstock Nation and its admiring Dalton parents. As one Dalton mother said of her nine-year-old, "he's not our son; he's our friend." Barr was so out of it that he even tried to ban blue jeans and long hair on boys. While teaching a course on Marxism, he actually started wearing an American-flag pin on his lapel. When Barr began referring to staying after school as "detention," one father growled, "Will the children be allowed one phone call to their...
...subculture itself has been on that same trip, suicide. It has gone from Haight-Ashbury and Woodstock to Altamont, Hendrix, and Joplin. The music of the middle-and late-sixties is not being made any more. The concept of being brothers with the Panthers and the Vietnamese dragged people into having to care about politics, or not caring at all. And neither option was compatible with the carefree days of mind-expansion...
...right. In the years since, even Sophie Portnoy has survived. Now Wylie, the kind of man who spindles and mutilates his phone bills as a matter of principle, has come forth with Sons and Daughters of Mom. Wylie turns his venom from Mom to Mom's long-haired Woodstock children: "second generation vipers" or "arrogant pipsqueaks" given to "self-pity and vacuous dreams." Are the young correct that no one listens to them? Says Wylie: "Too Goddamn many people listen to them...