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"Ah yes," said Bachardy when we met last week in the London home of Katherine Bucknell, the editor of Isherwood's diaries, the second volume of which, The Sixties, is published this month.
Christopher Isherwood remembered: 'Chris always loved young men, and I was certainly young' Peter Conrad 2010
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The Sixties is just the most fantastic era for music, because it was so wide-ranging.
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It is also a look at how the period we call the Sixties is never far from the present, no matter what we do to deny it or how far we run.
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It began – back in that period of frantic experimentation that became known as The Sixties - by questioning the conventional wisdom of the time, which is often a good thing to do.
Archive 2008-03-01 David Hadley 2008
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If it is the latter for the Stones, do those reminders bring back only the fear and none of the joy from the apocalyptic time we call the Sixties?
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That was the year when the era, the values and the spirit known as the Sixties reached its climax - for good and for ill.
TIME GOES BY 2009
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One final note: the so-called Sixties is largely a myth — a collection of clichés — handed down as a break on contemporary activists and today’s struggles.
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One final note: the so-called Sixties is largely a myth — a collection of clichés — handed down as a break on contemporary activists and today’s struggles.
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The decade of the Sixties was a time, in short, when the old foundations of national confidence, patriotic idealism, moral traditionalism, and even of historic Judaeo-Christian theism, were awash.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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Does that mean all the social unrest of the Sixties was a flop?
Jay Michaelson: Six Things Liberal Critics Don't Understand About the Occupy Wall Street Protests Jay Michaelson 2011
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