At 16, I went to Smith College in Massachusetts and that was right after the peak of the civil-rights movement and all the rest. It was an era when students were making demands and many black students were closer to the teachings of Malcolm X, or what they thought were his teachings.
I came into public life during the 1960s when a whole bunch of us believed in our ability to change the world. And we did a lot of things.
For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
Growing up with Bronx Irish parents during an era of protests against the status quo, I was especially committed to doing the opposite of what I was told to do. Forty-four years later, I am left with only one means of making a living: comedy.
I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.
The protest years were over, not just for me but for a whole generation, and in music, just like in politics, many of the greatest talents were dead or in exile, and their place was filled by third-rate imitators.
The 1960s: A lot of people remember hating President Lyndon Baines Johnson and loving Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, depending on the point of view. God rest their souls.
Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
Having recorded his first album, 'Tapestry,' in 1969, in Berkeley, California, during the student riots, McLean, a native New Yorker, became a kind of weather vane for what he called the 'generation lost in space.'
My political career goes back to the '60s and those were times of vigorous debates.
I'm a child of the Sixties.
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When I went to college in the 1970s, the Women's Liberation movement was all the buzz.
The '60s were an amazing time.
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent.
Don't underlook the Sixties; we started eating more vegetables, respecting women, and we shut down Vietnam. We did a lot of good stuff. But it shouldn't shut you down from the moment.
When I was about 21 and just about to get out of college at NYU, Vietnam was raging, and I was a frustrated musician for a little bit.
I grew up on the East Coast and was going to go to an Ivy League School, but at the last minute I decided to be a hippy. It was the protest movements on the war, peace movements were going on at our university. It was a fantastic time.
The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important 'cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
You look at 1968 and it was truly the year that shook the world. The world was really completely upside down.
