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Show Jeffries, Section 3, Page 76 "How about those fifties," Calamity Jane continued, "when of course you were too young to vote but could you handle it that Adlai was divorced or did you feel that we needed a military man for the times? Now in the fifties I was in flower, but in what they call the sixties, the mid-sixties up through the moment at hand this is a time or an epoch which is not comprehensible to me. . ." "Snafu," Chester White agreed. "If I may put it in terms of what passes for the music. Now I can understand Neil Sedaka singing Oh Carol. But it's beyond me how that girl grew up to become Carole King. "And these half-baked ideas like the American Pie. And what does that man mean singing someone left the cake out in the rain? And that LSD song where the kids are eating the drugs and the rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies. "I don't see that we have influence on our children when they don't dig our lingo. Well they're always criticizing us. Our music, the way we dress. And the way we drink. They make melodramatic gestures with Alateen literature. So we scream back that they're some example for us with their reefers and goofballs. "Another zombie. "And the people who think that they're something else. The sex-changes. I don't know. Maybe I'm conserva- |