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The Woodstock Consensus

Rex Weiner | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: 1960s, Civil Rights Movement, The Sixties, Sixties Culture, Activists, Woodstock, Woodstock Consensus, Civil Rights, Politics News

Forty years after the summer of '69, isn't it time we face the truth that the ideals of the Woodstock Generation -- ideals once widely mocked and officially repressed -- have pretty much won the day?

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The Who vs Abbie Hoffman: Celebrating Woodstock's 40th Anniversary

Pete Fornatale | Posted 09.03.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Pete Townshend, The Sixties, The Who, 1960's, Country Joe McDonald, Woodstock, Entertainment News, Music, Book, Peace, Pete Fornatale, Abbie Hoffman, Entertainment News

What happened next provided one of the true Roshomon moments of Woodstock. Actually, that's not strictly speaking true. There were only two versions of what happened next: Hoffman's and everybody else's.

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Another '60s Anniversary: The Ur-Action Blockbuster Goldfinger

William Bradley | Posted 08.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Mike Myers, Oddjob, 1960s, Mustang, Cubby Broccoli, Goldfinger, Harry Saltzman, Ford Mustang, George W. Bush, Honor Blackman, Goldeneye, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ian Fleming, Austin Powers, John Barry, Casino Royale, Paul Johnson, Steven Spielberg, Thunderball, Apollo 11, Jaws, James Cameron, Moon, The Rock, Dr. No, Soviet Union, Jaguar, Aston Martin, Communist China, Shirley Bassey, True Lies, Guy Hamilton, Mad Men, James Bond, Warren Beatty, Indiana Jones, Ursula Andress, George Lucas, George Lazenby, Transformers, Beatles, Tom Cruise, Pierce Brosnan, Daniel Craig, Michael Bay, From Russia With Love, Entertainment News

Though Goldfinger looks almost sedate compared to today's jittery, mashed-up action pictures, editor Peter Hunt's work 45 years ago, emphasizing fast hard cuts, was an innovation.

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Hair: The Tribe Has Spoken

Jon Chattman | Posted 08.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: 1960s, War, Tony Awards, Kacie Sheik, Broadway, Hippies, Concert, Peace, Tribe, Tom Hanks, Shakespeare in the Park, Ato Blankson-Wood, Vietnam, Hair, Billboard, Steel Burkhardt, Conan, Love, 1970s, Entertainment News

The stars of Hair know how lucky they've been to experience a journey that started in a concert in Central Park last summer: they've scored the Willy Wonka Golden Ticket in landing this gig.

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Robert McNamara and America's Tragic Memory Loss

Will Bunch | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, 1960s, Michael Jackson Death, Vietnam War, Iraq War, Vietnam, Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, Iraq and Vietnam, Shock and Awe, Politics News

Even after McNamara spelled out everything that went so horribly wrong in Vietnam, he lived long enough to see a new generation of the self-appointed "best and brightest" in Washington pay absolutely no mind to the lessons of our recent past.

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YouTube and MySpace Leaves "No Space" for a Generation

Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 07.13.2009 | Living

A generation suckled on the need to be constantly seen and heard leaves a generation that is heard and seen, but doesn't listen much.

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Star Trek's New Coming-of-Age Saga for Generation O

William Bradley | Posted 06.08.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Star Wars, 1960s, Space Program, Star Trek Movie, William Shatner, Bruce Greenwood, Zoe Saldana, J.J. Abrams, Terminator, Karl Urban, Leonard McCoy, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Peace Corps, Lost, X-Men, Star Trek, Jerry Goldsmith, Uhura, Anton Yelchin, Alias, Leonard Nimoy, Fringe, Roberto Orci, Christopher Pike, Top Gun, John McCain, Kennedy, Colin Powell, Rush Limbaugh, Heroes, Special Forces, Apple Store, Chekov, John Wayne, John Ford, Barack Obama, Alex Kurtzman, John Cho, Jeffrey Hunter, Thirteen Days, Zachary Quinto, Sulu, George Lucas, Michael Giacchino, Samuel Peeples, Starfleet, Spock, Chris Pines, Steve Schmidt, Steve McQueen, Doctor Who, Jfk, James T. Kirk, Gene Roddenberry, Entertainment News

Star Trek's message, focusing on a future of diversity, teamwork, and technology, appropriately used -- is especially attuned to the Obama era.

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Woodstock in Washington

Darryle Pollack | Posted 02.28.2009 | Living

In the election of Barack Obama, the mood of fear and anger that has gripped our country for eight years seems to have vanished overnight. At least for now.

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Can Progressives Grow Up? (President Obama Needs the Left to Change Its Ways)

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Change, President Obama, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, The Left, 1960s, Left Wing, Progressives, The Right, Right Wing, Harvard, Obama Progressives, Progressive Movement, Rotc, Barack Obama, Barack Obama Progressives, Columbia University, Politics News

First President Obama wasn't "black enough" for the black left. Then he was "too centrist" in his appointments for the white left. Then he wasn't gay friendly enough. Now he is President.

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Thank You George Bush for Bringing Us Obama

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, 1960s, 2008, Kennedy, 2008 Election, Romney, Obama, Mccain, Republicans, Election, Inauguration, Democrats, Presidential Elections, Barack Obama, Bush, Politics News

Thank you George Bush for breaking a 40 year evil spell which has gripped our country since the assassinations and chaos of 1968.

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Pete Seeger: American Patriot

David Weinberger | Posted 02.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Folk Music, Patriotism, Pete Seeger, Obama Inauguration, Inauguration, Barack Obama, 1960s, Nobel Prize, Singing, Music, Entertainment News

In my household, growing up, Pete Seeger was the example of what a patriot looks like. A man of the people. A hero who had stayed true to his ideals. A singer happiest in a small circle of like souls.

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The Biggest Loser

Gregory Allen Howard | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics

If a white man with Clarence Thomas's meager background of minor government bureaucrat had been put up for the Supreme Court, there would have been outrage. Except that he was Black.

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Down That Revolutionary Road Towards Many Award Accolades

Brad Balfour | Posted 02.15.2009 | Entertainment

In Revolutionary Road, audiences see the destruction of a relationship never really fated to be, somewhat thrown together by expectations they have for each other but are never realized.

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Toward 2012

Daniel Pinchbeck | Posted 02.15.2009 | Style

Read More: Psychiatry, Mushrooms, 1960s, Materialism, The 60s, Prophets, Books, The New York Times, Dmt, Prophecy, Drugs, Johns Hopkins, Wall Street Journal, Mayan Calendar, Lsd, Oaxaca, Indigenous People, 1950s, Quetzalcoatl, 2012, Timothy Leary, Cnn, New York Times, Mexico Drugs, 60s Culture, Shamans, Mayans, Style News

What might our society gain from the legitimate use and study of psychedelics if their benefits, as well as risks, were well understood and articulated?

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Bill Stringfellow, Will Campbell, Don Benedict

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 02.02.2009 | Living

And there are many other names. When I noticed at Faith and Theology an apparent "discovery" of Bill Stringfellow, I left the following comment, to wh...

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Digging Out of the '00ze

Eric Lurio | Posted 01.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Time, Decades, Recession, Global Warming, Culture, 1960s, Bush Administration, The Kennedy Administration, George W. Bush, 9/11, Roaring 20s, The '00ze, Stuck in the '00ze, 1950s, Tabloid Journalism, Living News

Names are important. Generally the naming of decades is a no brainer. The question is what to call the decade whose final year is about to begin.

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"Everyday People" Turns Forty -- and the "Good Sixties" Triumph

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 12.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pop Music, 1960s, Religion, Civil Rights Movement, Rock Music, Sly Stone, Everyday People, 2008 Election, Music, Barack Obama, Spirituality, Culture, Grand Theft Jesus, Politics News

This month, "We shall overcome" overcame "I shall overindulge" as the meaning of the Sixties.

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Making Sense of the Sixties: Reflections for the 40th Reunion of the Harvard-Radcliffe Class of 1968

Stephen Mo Hanan | Posted 12.19.2008 | Style

Read More: Counterculture, 1960s, The Sixties, Loose Morals, 1968, Counter Culture, Gop, Rebelling, Harvard, Hippies, Style News

The dress, music, drugs and loose morals of the emerging counterculture must have looked to a Sixties puritan like a reversion to chaotic paganism.

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The Strange Return of the Sixties Radicals

Johann Hari | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Global Warming, Bill Ayers, Vietnam War, Culture Wars, 1960's, Henry Kissinger, Politics News

There is still a distortion in our memories of the violence of the '60's. After condemning Obama for vaguely knowing Ayers, McCain boasted about his "close friendship" with Henry Kissinger -- and nobody noticed the dissonance.

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Bill Ayers Tells His Side: 'A Bit Surreal'

The Huffington Post | Ben Goldberger | Posted 12.08.2008 | Chicago

Bill Ayers, who stayed quiet throughout the presidential campaign even as he became its central lightning rod, finally broke his silence on Election D...

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Old Hippie Becomes New Radical

Julia Moulden | Posted 11.25.2008 | Living

Read More: 1960s, Don Stannard-Friel, Notre Dame De Namur University, Activism, Community Work, Julia Moulden, New Radicals, Hippies, Students, Old Radicals, Giving Life, Tenderloin, Living News

Don Stannard-Friel didn't have to go far to create a New Radical role for himself. Don is a professor of sociology and anthropology at Notre Dame de N...

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Bill Ayers, Blackberries and John McCain

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: 1960s, John McCain, Weather Underground, Presidential Debates, Blackberries, 1970s, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Politics News

The Bill Ayers issue underscores just how out of touch John McCain is with the country he seeks to lead. It is also, for many Americans, just another way for John McCain to tell us he is old.

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Colleges Change As Liberal Professors Retire

New York Times | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Liberal Education, 1960s, Liberals Academia, Baby Boomers, Liberal Universities, Liberal Colleges, Politics News

When Michael Olneck was standing, arms linked with other protesters, singing "We Shall Not Be Moved" in front of Columbia University's library in 1968...

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