GENERATIONS

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Still, when I was touring with The Rolling Stones standing on stage in auditoriums filled with 20,000 ecstatic longhairs, it was pretty easy to feel that the polarization over lifestyle had been laid to rest, and that we had ”won.” I remember seeing the changes in small things. Returning from England while watching an American […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDSes1bQjKM&feature=youtube_gdata_player Nobody would understand this better, nor use it more to their advantage in that era, than Madonna. The number of seismic social and cultural shifts she somehow embodied reads like an inventory of the rift in the generations: from the Sixties’ spiritual quest for ”Further” and ”All You Need Is Love” to the Eighties’ […]

Culture can be an insistent worm. The Berlin Wall came down, some argue, not because of Ronald Reagan but because of the influence of Western culture, which was broadcast into Eastern Europe and looked like a lot more fun. The Rolling Stones in Leningrad? There’s something in that. FROM AN AMERICAN STORY This video is […]

The process led to a downwardly-spiraling media circus. This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders.

But what I see (early 2011) concerns me tremendously: Supreme Court decisions that have given corporations expanded protections while police pepper-spray people gathered in non-violent assembly; income inequality of Third World proportions, endemic white collar crime, an inexorable slide in our global educational rank, and some in our population who cheer when the question is, […]

But what I see (early 2011) concerns me tremendously: Supreme Court decisions that have given corporations expanded protections while police pepper-spray people gathered in non-violent assembly; income inequality of Third World proportions, endemic white collar crime, an inexorable slide in our global educational rank, and some in our population who cheer when the question is, […]

Certainly the tumult of the sixties seemed long gone. Reagan “Morning in America” was the theme, wafting over the land. His single-minded determination to confront the Soviet Union would culminate in the tearing down of the Berlin Wall in 1989, a triumphant moment. And the rise of ‚”market democracies” marked the apparent triumph of America. […]

“Que sera, sera,” as Doris Day sang in my Fifties youth. But then, as I once heard attributed to a dying Tennessee Williams, “All I remember are the little kindnesses,” which might be also be called acts of conscience and compassion. FROM AN AMERICAN STORY. This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights […]