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Look-back Distance - 1
Dec. 1st, 2010 08:39 pmTwo things happened this week to call to mind the person I was 40 years ago . . . er, well, okay, 46 years ago to be honest. :-)
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Dec. 1st, 2010
Look-back 2
Dec. 1st, 2010 08:47 pmToday Howard and I had lunch with an old friend of mine that I'd not seen for about 40 years. We met one summer when I went down to UCLA to take an immersion course in French and she was attending to take a course in Soviet literature. We were staying in the dorm, and by sheer chance we ended up roommates because her name came just before mine in an alphabetical list.
But alphabet or not, we hit it off, both being extremely Left in our politics, as we still are.
I am still thinking over this particular experience and the memories it brought back, so I'll post more later, if it seems right. I want to remark though that at the time we met, it really seemed like the forces of the Rightwing were gaining control of the US and leading us right into a nuclear war with the Soviets.
It didn't happen then. The John Birch Society and Barry "better dead than Red" Goldwater faded away, and the bombs didn't fall.
There is still hope now, I think, to avert the plunge into fascism that the Tea Party-ites and the GOP are pushing these days. If we work at averting it.
But alphabet or not, we hit it off, both being extremely Left in our politics, as we still are.
I am still thinking over this particular experience and the memories it brought back, so I'll post more later, if it seems right. I want to remark though that at the time we met, it really seemed like the forces of the Rightwing were gaining control of the US and leading us right into a nuclear war with the Soviets.
It didn't happen then. The John Birch Society and Barry "better dead than Red" Goldwater faded away, and the bombs didn't fall.
There is still hope now, I think, to avert the plunge into fascism that the Tea Party-ites and the GOP are pushing these days. If we work at averting it.
