The 60s

Daydream Believer, 1945-2012: Davy Jones and the Shift of Generations

Howard Barbanel | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: The Monkees, John Lennon, The 60s, Jerry Garcia, Davy Jones, British Invasion, Justin Bieber, The Monkees Davy Jones, Davy Jones Dead, Entertainment News
Howard Barbanel

American culture is a youth culture. On television and the movies it sometimes seems that everything and everybody is permanently frozen at 28 years old and it's just the rest of us on the couch who break '50, '60 and '70.

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Saki Knafo

Return To Levittown

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 10.13.2011

Read More: Baby Boomers, Demonstrations, Levittown, The '70s, Anti-War Movement, Revolution, Berkeley, Occupy Wall Street, Protests, Steve Bergsman, Vietnam, Summer of Love, The '60s, Fifty News

Last Wednesday, as thousands of protesters gathered in financial districts around the country shouting slogans like "Get money out of politics" and "T...

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Saki Knafo

Levittown: The Baby Boomer Story As Told By The Children Of America's First Suburb

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: Suburbs, Long Island, Levittown History, Levittown, Baby Boomers, The 70s, Suburbia, The 60s, Suburb History, Vietnam War, Corrections, Steve Bergsman, Baby Boom Generation, Eddie Money, Vietnam, New York, Fifty News

In 1946, a developer named William Levitt began buying up land from potato farmers in the Long Island town of Hempstead, N.Y., and within a few years ...

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When My Parents Were Help to The Help

Mark Olmsted | Posted 10.10.2011

Read More: Suburbia, Rockville-Maryland, "The Help" Mothers, Poverty, Foster Care, Maids, The 60s, Black Women, The Help, The Help Movie, Culture News
Mark Olmsted

We had two cleaning ladies, Mary and Nancy, a pair of sisters who alternated their weekly visits. One day, Nancy came to work in tears, unable not to cry in front of my mother. "They gonna take Mary's kids away," she sobbed.

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PHOTOS: Mick Jagger Pouts His Way To The National Portrait Gallery

Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: Photography, Super Heavy, Mick Jagger, The 60s, Dave Stewart, Music, National Portrait Gallery, Hippies, UK Arts, Michael Joseph Gross, Gered Mankowitz, Terry O'neill, The Beatles, A.r. Rahman, Bookshop Gallery, David Wedgbury, Peter Stone, Joss Stone, Michael Cooper, Cecil Beaton, Colin Jones, Rolling Stones, Philip Townsend, Rock and Roll, Damian Marley, Arts News

Colin Jones' 1967 portrait of Sir Mick Jagger, with a confrontational gaze and a military coat à la Sgt. Pepper's, says it all. Jagger and the Rollin...

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New York Public Library Buys Timothy Leary’s Papers

nytimes.com | Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: Timothy Leary, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The 60s, Richard Nixon, Jack Kerouac, New York Public Library, Beat Poetry, Timothy Leary Papers, Hallucinogens, Lsd, Allen Ginsberg, Cary Grant, Books News

When the Harvard psychologist and psychedelic explorer Timothy Leary first met the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in 1960, he welcomed Ginsberg’s particip...

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Mad Men Season 4, Ep 4: The Rejected

Janet Turley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mad Men, Drew Peterson, The Sixties, Don Draper, Peggy Olsen, The 60s, Pete Campbell, Mad Men Season 4, Entertainment News
Janet Turley

Peggy steps out of her day job and into the beatnik nightlife, entering a world divorced from her pragmatism, where she doesn't have to fake virginity to win a man's attention.

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Eldridge Cleaver, Beaver Cleaver, and Cops Chasing My Mom

John Shore | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Vietnam Protests, Flower-Power, Sixties Slang, Hippies, Huffpost-Living, The 60's, Aging, Healthy Living News
John Shore

Chief amongst the mighty and majestic mysteries of my life is how in the name of Methuselah I could be 52 years old. One minute I'm playing in a meadow, the next I'm lying awake fretting about my cholesterol.

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Right Wing, Wrong History

Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Left, Media, The '60s, Saul Alinsky, Politics, Conservatives, Ecology, Weathermen, Woodstock, Feminism, Politics News
Jeffrey Shaffer

Hippies, draft resisters, the Weathermen, rock bands, college radicals, feminists, and peace marchers were not all siblings in one big anti-establishment family.

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My Father and the "Hair" Transplant

Jon Chattman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aquarius, Hair, Where Do I Go, Broadway, Revival, Caissie Levy, Jon Chattman, The 60's, Entertainment News
Jon Chattman

Hair was probably the best experience my dad and I have had together on Broadway. If you didn't live through this all-important time, see the show to experience it.

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Revenge of Gen-X: What Movies About the 80s Mean

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Counterculture, Civil Rights Movement, The 70s, The 60s, Vietnam, The 80s, Mccarthyism, The 50s, Eisenhower Era, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

In case you needed proof that Hollywood is dominated by and aimed at people in their 30s and early 40s, look at all the movies about the 1980s currently on screens.

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Toward 2012

Daniel Pinchbeck | Posted 05.25.2011

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
Daniel Pinchbeck

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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