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June 2007
June 30, 2007
The Summer of Love East Coast Style: Boomer Memories
My mother once said, after hearing I had waited on line two days for Rolling Stones tickets, "Someday this will embarrass you." What she meant, I suppose, was that someday almost everything we thought, felt, or did back then would embarrass all of us. She might have had a point. So often articles I read about the sixties have a self-deprecating air, as if at the time our antics--you know, war protests, campus demonstrations, love-ins, acid trips--seemed so important and now seem, well, silly.
Mark Jacobson's article in New York Magazine has some of that same tone. But it certainly brought back memories. New York did have its own gritty version of the Summer of Love. The city did not join hands and offer up a collective round of Kumbaya, but the muggy air was electric with change, conflict, potential, and the occasional cloud of marijuana smoke. As usual, Jacobson's writing is literate, muscular, and pretty much spot-on.
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They're Playing Our Song
Want to know what the #1 song was on the day you were born? A friend sent us this nifty link. Eddie Fisher, Perry Como, Patti Page...mmmmm boy--those were the days.
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June 7, 2007
But I Don't Feel Good!--Boomers' Health
I thought it was just me. But John Tierney, who writes for the New York Times, Science Times, describes research showing that Boomers report more problems with their health than older generations did when they were in their fifties. Are we less healthy or just whinier? Tierney's article has some nicely acidic comments too.
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