GENERATIONS
WHEN ASKED IF HE WAS WORRIED ABOUT HIS PLACE IN HISTORY WINSTON CHURCHILL REPLIED NO SINCE HE PROPOSED TO “WRITE IT MYSELF.” YOU MAY NOT BE INTERESTED IN HISTORY (TO PARAPHRASE TROTSKY) BUT HISTORY IS INTERESTED IN YOU. GENERATIONS ARE THE THROUGH-LINE. IT’S YOUR HISTORY. HELP WRITE IT.
LYNDON JOHNSON 1968
This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. (See out link policy) (1968) ‘With the Fall, Linda decides to return to the U.S. She does not seem to share my penchant for the gray brick, the black and white romanticism of A Taste of Honey. Besides, she […]
LEWIS CAROLL
“In our enthusiasm and excitement we welcomed back all the forgotten or discredited dreamers, from William Blake to Lewis Carroll, from the American Indian to Walt Whitman. Out of the overwhelming materialism of the fifties we tried to institute the abiding power of the spiritual, and we were not talking about going to church.” (From […]
INSTAMATICS 1966
“Spring came and the trees blossomed. By summer they were full and green, and it came time to think about getting a job. In Westport, Connecticut, I walked into Klein’s department store on Main Street because Klein’s had the largest book department in the area. I asked Stanley Klein, the son of the owner, if […]
BOB DYLAN SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK BLUES
This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. (See out link policy) It seemed as though every album — from every artist — was a major creative leap further. In 1965 Bob Dylan released Bringing It All Back Home. He was on the cover with an unnamed […]
THE ROLLING STONES “PLAY WITH FIRE” 1965
This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. (See out link policy) (1964)The Beatles’ first film, A Hard Day’s Night, came out. I could barely understand their accent. Pursued everywhere by screaming fans, the Beatles never stopped running. In the United States in 1965 The […]
THE MARSHALL PLAN (INCOMPLETE POST)
PLAN Are we the country of the Marshall Plan, or the country of Abu Ghraib? We have been both. (From ETHAN RUSSELL:AN AMERICAN STORY ) This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. (See out link policy)
ABU GHRAIB
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“YOUR HIT PARADE” 1953
This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. (See out link policy) “NEW YORK CITY, 1952…When I was in second grade in New York City I was forced by my parents to wear short pants to school and an “I Like Ike” button on my shirt. I […]
“OCCUPY WALL STREET”
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JOHN DEAN 1972
“With the malicious glee of an Ebenezer Scrooge, I watched the unraveling of the Nixon Presidency, noticing very early on Nixon’s incredible mistake of pitting his word and his Presidency against the entire American political system, legislative and judicial — thinking to myself, now he’s done it: it’s the system or him. On television a […]
