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THIS week has seen an orgy of Woodstock nostalgia. The three-day-long music festival that ended 20 years ago today was the last major event of the 1960s, and it supposedly defined a generation...
...shed the nagging feeling that they went wrong somewhere, that they have betrayed the ideals of their youth. This is exactly the kind of emotion Anthony M. Casale and Phillip Lerman tap into in their new book Where Have All the Flowers Gone?: The Fall and Rise of the Woodstock Generation...
...authors have put together a feel-good anthology, tracing the "Woodstock Generation" from the concert itself to the present, and even projecting it into the next decade...
...tense early-morning hours of June 4, hope died and fear was born. Thousands of combat troops stormed Tiananmen Square, transforming the Woodstock-like encampment of young students calling for democracy into the bloodiest killing ground in Communist China's history. The images of defiance and devastation, the voices of determination and despair, shook the world. Here, protesters attacked troops with poles and rocks. There, a student lurched, his dazed face soaked with blood. Everywhere, the bodies fell, how many is still not known, while fires blazed, signaling the dawn of China's uncertain new world...
...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 School of Economics. Everywhere and all at once, students rose in protest and revolt. Red and black flags, mycelia of defiance, sprouted overnight. France ground to a standstill. Charles de Gaulle tottered. Lyndon Johnson left politics. To revolution's fervid practitioners, it was 1848 and the 1871 Paris Commune rolled into...