wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@>
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk"
<shempmcgurk@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer
> > <fairfieldlife@>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > on 6/5/06 10:24 AM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer
> > > > > > <fairfieldlife@> wrote:
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> Patti Boyd: My life as a muse
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The muse sayeth:
> > > > > >> But you have to cut yourself a bit of slack in the end,
> > > > > >> I think. I certainly wouldn't have lived through any
> > > > > >> other era. People blame the 1960s for just about
> > > > > >> everything these days, but it was the decade when all
> > > > > >> that post-war furtiveness and small-mindedness was
> > > > > >> finally blown open and opportunity really came
> > > > > >> knocking."
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Well said. It was an interesting era to live through.
> > > > > > I don't know who here is old enough to remember the
> > > > > > 1950s and what it was like growing up in them. We're
> > > > > > talking 'duck and cover.' We're talking people brag-
> > > > > > ging about the size and quality of the fallout
> > > > > > shelters they just built in the back yard. It was
> > > > > > not a happy time, no matter how many neocons think
> > > > > > it was and want to return us to that mindset.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm old enough (56) to remember air raid drills in grammar
> > school
> > > > > in which we'd assemble in the hallway and cover our heads
> with
> > > our
> > > > > hands (as if that would protect one from an atomic bomb)
and
> > the
> > > > > local lumber company had a fallout shelter for sale,
> > prominently
> > > > > displayed on the main street. We used to play in it.
> > > >
> > > > I'm about eight years older than you, and I don't
> > > > remember much of any drill-type stuff (but I went to
> > > > a private "progressive" school,
> > >
> > > Boy, does that explain alot.
> >
> > Actually not. "Progressive" didn't refer to
> > political bent but to the educational philosophy
> > of John Dewey. It was a terrific school
> > educationally. I could have skipped the two
> > years I had to go to a public school--eighth
> > grade and twelfth grade--because I was so far
> > ahead.
> >
> > The school was no more "progressive" politically
> > than most of New York City, which is actually
> > pretty progressive.
> >
> > > Did you sing Pete Seeger songs?
> >
> > Sure. Pete Seeger came to sing at the school too.
> > And they let classes out early the afternoon of
> > the final game in the Yankees-Dodgers "subway
> > series" in, what, 1958?--and set up a big TV in the
> > auditorium so we could all watch. The principal of
> > the school took over running the elevator so the
> > Brooklyn-born regular elevator operator could go
> > watch too.
> >
> > But what really "explains a lot" is that both my
> > parents were card-carrying liberals.
> >
>
> I agree.
>
> And you haven't had an independent thought for yourself since.
Since what?
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