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Ravi Shankar turned 90 years old yesterday
George Harrison once called Ravi Shankar the godfather of world music. And here is Ravi Shankar in interview with George Harrison: And yes, he’s still playing. Here is Shankar in 2009: . And here’s Shankar on Dick Cavett’s show:
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Tagged 1960s, 1970s, a passage to india, george harrison, Hinduism, India, meditation, music, ravi shankar, sitar, world music, yoga
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Apollonian Nefertiti Kitty Cats and Dionysian Band Boys
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Tagged 1960s, Apollo, apologies, art, Camille Paglia, Dionysus, Egypt, life, music, Nefertiti, smoldering
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Are You a Bohemian?
This nineteenth century person was. She let herself be painted by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and he named the painting Lise the Bohemian (1868): This appears to be a young woman, amidst a languid summer, in the process of falling in on herself, almost … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960s, 19th century, art, beauty, bohemian, Dionysus, Freud, hippie, Moses, ouroboros, painting, Renoir
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My Uncle in Las Vegas Recently
He’s 78 years old, and his stage name is Steve Rossi. His nonstage name is Steve Tafarella: And when he was young:
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Tagged 1960s, comedians, comedy, comedy teams, funny, humor, Las Vegas, life, steve rossi
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Mental Health Break
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Tagged 1960s, life, mental health break, music, psychology, religion, sexy
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I Like This Matt Stone and Trey Parker Introduction to Alan Watts
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Tagged 1960s, agnosticism, alan watts, atheism, atheist, Buddhism, eastern philosophy, philosophy, religion, south park, Zen
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The Glorious Mary Travers of the Folk Trio Peter, Paul, and Mary Died Today
Of cancer. She was 73. She was 27 when she sang this:
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Tagged 1960s, 60s, America, cancer, death, freedom, life, mary travers, protest, Vietnam, women's liberation, women's rights
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Mental Health Break
Samson’s lament:
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Tagged 1960s, Bible, delilah and samson, Hebrew Bible, mental health break, music, religion, samson and delilah, tom jones
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Jazz Interlude
Louis Prima:
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Tagged 1960s, dance, jazz, jungle book, Las Vegas, louis prima, music, psychology
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Joan Fry’s “How to Cook a Tapir”
My wife’s friend (and our colleague at the college that we all teach at in California) hit the big time last month, seeing her University of Nebraska Press book, How to Cook a Tapir, reviewed in both the Los Angeles Times … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960s, books, how to cook a tapir, joan fry, life, literature, memoir, travel writing, writing
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“What is called resignation is confirmed desperation” (Henry David Thoreau)
Escaping from freedom into the ecstasy of resignation and submission (1967): Or another way to look at it: “Atheism is a ferocious system, that leaves nothing above us to excite awe, nor around us to awaken tenderness” (R. Hall).
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Tagged 1960s, 1967, Buddhism, Charisma, confirmed desperation, Dostoevsky, evangelicalism, Henry David Thoreau, Hinduism, krishna, yoga, Zen
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Ticket to Ride
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Mental Health Break: Peter, Paul, and Mary Sing Pete Seeger’s “If I Had a Hammer”
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Tagged 1960s, activism, justice, liberal, music, pete seeger, poems, poetic justice, poetry, Politics, psychology, revolution
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Mental Health Break: Shopping for Clothes in London, Late 1960s
I thought that there were two rather brilliant observations by the narrator of this video. The first was on groovy clothes dressing and clothing shops in general: It’s all another tiny colored womb, warm and gentle, in its way an … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960s, art, beauty, clothes, fashion, hippies, life, London, malls, rebellion, revolution
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I Like the Multi-headed White Caterpillar
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Tagged 1960s, beatles, george harrison, John Lennon, life, music, poetry, surrealism, walrus
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Zen Meditation Break with Alan Watts: Gooey Prickles and Prickly Goo
Alan Watts was a former Anglican priest turned scholar of Japanese Zen. An icon of the 1960s counter-culture, Watts used to go around giving spontaneous and magical lectures at American college campuses, turning-on students to Eastern forms of reflection and meditation. … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960s, alan watts, Buddhism, China, ecology, Hinduism, hippies, Japan, physics, taoism, Zen
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Prometheus Unbound 