"The Sixties are most generously described as a……" — Greil Marcus

"The Sixties are most generously described as a time when people took part - when they stepped out of themselves and acted in public, as people who didn't know what would happen next, but who were sure that acts of true risk and fear would produce something different from what they had been raised to take for granted."

— Greil Marcus

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