Sandra, this gave me a chuckle too, since I was teaching the sixties last
term to a group of senior university students whose average age, except
for one, was less than half mine (and I'm a mere kid at 46--my wife a more
"core" sixties veteran at 53). When I showed the film "Berkeley in the
Sixties" I realized none of them had even been born by the time the decade
had ended. Now that's a scary thought! (grin)
But my favorite story was of a conversation my wife overheard at her
university in Portland one day last term, when a group of young undergrads
were talking about rock music. One mentioned Paul McCartney and another
said to her, "Oh yeah, wasn't he in some band even *before* Wings?"
Scott Kerlin
Lifelong Sixties Activist in Spirit
http://www.teleport.com/~skerlin
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Sandra Hollin Flowers wrote:
> I've been chuckling at the posts recalling our memorable "Don't trust
> anyone over 30" motto. In explaining it to an undergrad audience a few
> years ago, I put it this way: "When we were in our 20's, we used to
> say, 'Don't trust anyone over 30.' Then when we got into our 30's and
> 40's we upped the limit by a decade at each milestone. Now, that we're
> all pushing 50 and 60, we've learned better. Now we say, 'Don't trust
> anyone who's not breathing.'"
>
> Sandra
>
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