Post by telegonus on Nov 7, 2017 8:59:31 GMT
Let me see: if, when I was Gig Young's character's age, I was yearning for a period of time comparable in actual years to the time he was yearning for, it would be the final year of the Kennedy administration, thus just before the demise of Camelot. Actually, that's not too shabby, as a lot happened in the intervening quarter century, including the civil rights era, riots in the inner city, the rise of the Counterculture, folk, rock and then folk rock music, followed by acid rock and a whole bunch of other things. The Summer Of Love, the Vietnam war it was in part a response to, all culminating in Woodstock. Then the fall from grace, starting with Manson, then Kent State, then Watergate. The dazed and confused Seventies, with its disco music alternating with singer songriters; and Elton John and Bruce Springsteen's music all over the airwaves. After that came Reagan and the, in retrospect, very Big Chill of the Eighties; Michael Jackson, the Talking Heads, Whitney Houston, Indiana Jones and Rambo and Terminators movies. That's a whole lotta history. We maybe underestimate just how much we, those of us of the (so-called) Boomer generation have actually seen and been through.