Time Frame I.V.

[Michael Richard]

On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Michael Bailey wrote:

> malignd wrote:
> > My sense of the sixties is not that it ended early, but started late; i.e.,
> > the "sixties" is from say 1965 to (say) 1972.  The early sixties were still
> > under the influence of Kennedy, not drugs.
> >
> 
> my pedestrian take: the 60s were from 1961 thru 1970;
> the biggest single engine of positive social change was the civil
> rights movement;
> a great deal of that happened in the early 60s, and
> to cop a phrase from Allan Sherman, hippies weren't a pimple on its ass

18th Century lasted through 1914
teens were 1914-1918
twenties   1919-1929
thirties   1930-1936
forties    1937-1946
fifties    1947-1962
sixties    1963-1973
seventies  1974-1983
eighties   1984-1992
ninties    1993-2000

I was born in the fifties, but I am a child of the seventies.