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The Sixties

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
Rex Weiner

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
Pete Fornatale

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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On Paul McCartney, and the Memories He Made

John Farr | Posted 05.05.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Yellow Submarine, Movie Recommendations, The Beatles Anthology, George Harrison, DVD Rentals, Paul McCartney, A Hard Day's Night, Sixties Music, The Compleat Beatles, The Beatles, The Sixties, John Lennon, Stella McCartney, Ringo Starr, British Invasion, Cirque Du Soleil, Beatlemania, Entertainment News
John Farr

To relive Beatlemania in all its madcap glory, I suggest you sit yourselves down to the following double-feature.

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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
Stephen Mo Hanan

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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Don't Bogart That Script, My Friend

Michael Jones | Posted 10.06.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Joint, Movies, Michaelangelo, Marijuana, Seth Rogen, Judd Apatow, Pot, The Sixties, Pineapple Express, Sixties, James Franco, Stoner Movies, Pothead Movies, Pot Movies, Chicago Gyros, Seth Rogen Stoner, Joint Rolling, Gyros, Weed Movies, Pineapple Express Movie Review, Chicago News
Michael Jones

There is a proud history of extremely funny stoner movies in these United States. Ambling, discordant, self indulgent, silly, and freaking funny.

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