Posted on 10/25/2004 8:42:53 AM PDT by FatLoser
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What a gay read this was. But I agree with the author that the Sixties need to return, along with my youth and about as likely. If the Sixties (and my youth) returned tomorrow, I would do exactly the same thing as I did then: buy a pawnshop guitar, learn three chords and spend my time going to parties and seducing hippie chicks. (Aahh, dear dead days.)
Fantastic article.
But his observation of early 60s TV ignores some very, very good drama series of the time. "Route 66", "The Defenders", "Ben Casey", "The Naked City". And how "The Untouchables" juxtaposed Robert Stack's wooden Elliot Ness with gangsters who were a lot more fun and interesting and multidimensional.
The "Sixties", as they are known, did not really start until the day after the November election in 1964.
And, of course, the best sitcom *EVER* produced, "The Dick Van Dyke Show."
How this country evolved into 50% liberals is beyond me. How anyone can buy into the religion of moral relativism and or be duped by liberal rhetoric. Now I find myself praying that percentage doesn't increase.
I never thought I could actually hate someone for their beliefs but the 60's mind set comes close.
"--- the bitter, polarizing ideological divisions that would open up in "The Sixties," and that persist in American politics to this day, lay in the future.
On important issues, the leading politicians in both parties, as well as the most respected Establishment figures, were essentially in agreement, sharing a broad vision of social progress allied with a firm anticommunism.
There were few serious differences within the mainstream of American thought as to what the country was essentially about.
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Very true, in this sense. -- Most people essentially agreed with our Constitution, as written. --- It was an era of live & let live.
Then 'they' killed JFK.
Who are "they"?
Interesting article. Thanks for posting it.
You're welcome.
Good article. Might have mentioned the original Star Trek series, however. Very "early 60s." And the early James Bond movies.
The most dramatic event of the early 1960s was that men quit wearing hats.
You're right, I forgot about Star Trek. We have Lucille Ball to thank for that though. She was head of DesiLu Studios that greenlighted the pilot and initial episodes. Wholda' thunk it? The lady that played a ditzy redhead unleashed a phenomenon like Star Trek.
Who are "they"?
By now only the government knows, and they aren't telling, are they?
later....
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