Wish You Were Here (2008)
“John’S, Smokers, Networks and Friends“Like all the really crucial things in life, this chain of events was completely invisible to Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent . . .”The Restaurant at the End of the UniverseIn the full, panting tabloid sense of the term, the 1960s did not really start in 1960, nor did they waft to a close in 1970. History is not as neat as our decimal notation. The Vietnam War was still going, and in May 1970 US forces invaded neutral Cambodia in an attempt to deny the Vietcong... access through that country. “Interdict” was just one of the era’s many bullshit words that attempted to lend a spurious sense of precision to a bloody and chaotic conflict. That same month, the National Guard shot dead four American student protesters in Ohio’s Kent State University. Nixon and Kissinger, after a bombing campaign in North Vietnam the devastating scale of which is still not widely understood, agreed a ceasefire in 1972. It was signed in early 1973 and the Fall of Saigon, watched in palsied fascination on telly all over the world, followed in 1975.The hippy movement—if anything as uncoordinated and woolly could be said to be a movement—was already in retreat.MoreLess
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