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...were "forever young," as Bob Dylan's later anthem said, fierce and primal juices fired through the nerves. Complexity fell away. Deferrals of pleasure and deferences to age, the old Confucian virtues that had made their way into America through the Protestant ethic, blew away at the concussion of youth. "Don't trust anyone over 30" became the slogan of the conspiracy...
...moment, 1968, that mysteriously stepped outside of time, one that was forever bringing the young to dimensions of eternity and the sacred: the boy-soldiers in Viet Nam were connected to death, the heroes to their own cessations, cut down in the prime of their youth and work. Part of the mythic power of the year derives from the mystery of all the possibilities that vanished into death and nothingness. (In October there came an odd, minor coda to the sex and death and disillusion of the '60s, when Jacqueline Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis. Illusion -- Camelot and the rest -- came...
...America, youth was in revolt, and that great uprising on the political and cultural left was answered by the rising of George Wallace's army on the right. Wallace, truculent and charismatic in a darkling way, ran a third-party campaign that attracted a large following among blue-collar workers, ethnics, and Middle Americans who felt abandoned by their own country and its politics. There was poetry, if not logic, in the fact that many voters who would have supported Robert Kennedy switched to Wallace after Kennedy's death. Kennedy and Wallace, so different in most ways, drew from...
...fatalistic, intense, was a messiah to some, an opportunist to others. He announced his candidacy for the White House four days after another improbable visionary, Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota, had almost beaten Lyndon Johnson in New Hampshire's Democratic primary. McCarthy's antipolitical antiwar campaign had galvanized American youth. Beards shaved and locks shorn, they rushed by the thousands to become "Clean for Gene" workers in his crusade. The New York Senator's decision to enter the race split the peace movement. It also brought back to American politics an almost mystical icon of concern for the poor...
...father in an argument in 1984, on his 45th birthday. -- S.I. HAYAKAWA, former president of San Francisco State University, retired from the U.S. Senate in 1982. He is honorary chairman of U.S. English, which seeks to make English the official language of the U.S. -- ABBIE HOFFMAN, cofounder of the Youth International Party, is an environmental activist, antidrug advocate and a fixture on the college lecture circuit. -- JAMES LOVELL JR., Apollo 8 astronaut, is executive vice president of Centel Corp., a Chicago telecommunications and electric utilities firm. -- DICK MARTIN, cohost of Laugh-In, is now a television director. His credits include...