This year, the proper length of time having passed, the 1960s are getting totemized. A feeling is in the air that at last that confusing decade can be puzzled out; its social changes, so controversial abirthing, seem to be either generally accepted (like marijuana or the sexual revolution) or by and large forgotten (like LSD […]
Vietnam War
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What Did You Do In the Class War, Daddy?
Many people think that the worst scars of the war years have healed. I don’t. Vietnam has left us with a heritage rich in possibilities for class warfare, and I would like to start telling about it with this story: In the fall of 1969, I was beginning my final year in college. As the […]
