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| I've been thinking about the actual effect that the violence at the 1968 Democratic Convention had on the American leftist movement. I mean, for one, Phil Ochs never got over it... | |
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| True. "Rehearsals For Retirement" was such a tired, knowing statement of defeat from a formerly spirited voice of the people. | |
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| But, also... by that point, hippiedom had been mass-marketed so much it had lost much of its original strong communal, anti-establishment principles. | |
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| And had merely become the latest fad amongst teens in America's heartland. | |
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| The only good part that came out of the watering-down of hippiedom was a good five to six years of very short dresses. | |
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| Yeah, you ever notice that the good fashions NEVER come back into style? | |
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