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[MalignD at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/7/03 6:02:25 PM, Mutualcode at aol.com writes:

<< Was that the sixties or some caricature of one
aspect of an extremely diverse period? I would tend
to be skeptical of such conveniences as: "those for
whom the sixties is best remembered..." Not to deny
the puritanical intolerance of many an "aquarian," but
it never fails to amuse how judgemental some people
get about "the sixties," as if it were a person or single
movement that was supposed to live up to some
preconceived "period standard," or something.  >>

Please.  It's precisely the caricature I'm addressing.  

"The sixties," intended as something other than the span of chronological 
time between the fifties and the seventies, means little more than such 
generalizations and cliches; it's all there is to agree or disagree with.  
The summing up of cultural movements and periods by decades is itself a 
cliche, for that matter.  The so-called sixties, as usually meant, runs from 
the early-mid sixties into the early seventies, defined by LSD at one end and 
disco at the other.