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...which he measured them. He achieved great power, wealth and fame, and he was by any measure one of the most influential figures in the nation. But Luce was not satisfied with conventional success of whatever magnitude. He had higher, perhaps unattainable, aims that he had absorbed in his youth and retained until his death...
Luce emerged from his youth with a deep sense of moral certainty matched by his unquenchable ambition and limitless curiosity. At an early age he began to crave books of all kinds. And he developed an almost obsessive attraction to travel. In 1913, at 15, he journeyed alone through Europe for four months before returning to the U.S. for prep school. He was, he said, "a fanatical sightseer," and he visited cities, museums and other sites with a relentless and methodical efficiency. That thirst for knowledge and experience--at times, it seemed, an almost undifferentiated thirst, a quest...
What took place at Bethel, ostensibly, was the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, which was billed by its youthful Manhattan promoters as "An Aquarian Exposition" of music and peace. The festival turned out to be history's largest happening. As the moment when the special culture of U.S. youth of the '60s openly displayed its strength, appeal and power, it may well rank as one of the significant political and sociological events...
...Henry Luce, who started this magazine in March 1923. It goes without saying that Hadden and Luce were enormously smart and able. What is rarely said is that at that moment 75 years ago, they were so very young. That's what surprises--and inspires--me about them: their youth. On the date of Vol. I, No. 1, Hadden was 25 and Luce 24. As they assembled their 32-page magazine in offices at 9 East 40th Street--their equivalent, you might say, of the garage in Los Altos, Calif., where some 50 years later Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak...
...This is not your father's White House. If anything, it's your daughter's." --March 8, 1993, from an article on the new youth culture at the Clinton White House...