And Kenneth wanted to make his own way, not have to work ten years to get some small psi-mod or magical alteration which he could buy with a few months of labor, but in a faction he would be having all his excess sopped up by the faction's elites who were aiming to turn themselves into magic mechbods. If one didn't hide, then getting enslaved by one of the factions that ran things was a lively possibility. He broke off the mucus tubes that ran from his nose so that he could breathe when he was hiding overnight in the bucket. Joints popped back together with a staccato crackling.
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Skin tightened, and then he did the same with the extra-length tendons and ligaments. He lay on the alley under the porch, and mentally activated the muscle cells in his skin. The sun rose, and Kenneth Haston poured himself out of his bucket. Even in the blandest "eras of good feelings," consensus had never truly ruled the national mood.Thread for Multiverser-related fictional short stories. The experiences of the period cut deep crevices into the nation's social and psychic terrain. The decade also witnessed the "liberation" of whole categories of people who had previously been penalized for their race, age, physical fitness, gender, or sexual preference. In this decade's wake, all hierarchical structures became more pliant, all judgments and critical evaluations and "canons" less definitive and acceptable. The Sixties delegitimized all sources of authority-governments, universities, parents, critics, experts, employers, the police, families, the military. And beyond the personal, there was the whole society. New careers, new loves, new connections, and new interests and attitudes could now be sampled and indulged. The attack on authority and hierarchy and the exaltation of the self freed some adults to reconnoiter their options as never before. Nor were the young the only ones whose lives were recast. Young men and women just reaching sexual maturity faced novelty, uncertainty, and opportunity as had no previous generation. For the first time, a generation of American college students contended with real-world politics, where significant gains and losses were at stake. The air resounded with harsh voices demanding, raging, denouncing, promising, accusing, cajoling.įew who reached adulthood between 19 remained unmarked by the events of those years. Life blueprints were rejected people struck out on new courses. It was a time when events went into overdrive, and the postwar social trajectory was deflected off line. Introduction The Sixties resound in our historical memory as do few other eras. 242 Eugene McCarthy and the "Children's Crusade". 239 Robert Kennedy And The 1968 Presidential Campaign. 196 North Vietnamese Official Explains Communist Negotiating Tactics.
195 McNamara Proposes Vietnam Escalation. 150 The National Organization for Women "Bill of Rights". The New Right.73 Fundamentalist Conservatism. 10 The Other America: Poverty in the United States by Michael Harrington. 9 Council of Economic Advisers Report, 1965. The Times Were A Changin' The Sixties ReaderĮditors: Irwin Unger, Debi Unger Publisher: Three Rivers Press Date: 1998 ISBN: 7-9
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