Where's The Counterculture?

January, 2009

REVISING THE REVISION ABOUT THE 1960SI remember the incident distincdy. It was May 1969. Campuses throughout the country were aflame with anger and hope. But at that moment I was in what seemed to be a fireproof compartment, a class on leadership in the Naval Reserve Offi­cers Training Corps at the University of Virginia. Our instruc­tor, a colorless lieutenant, was warning us there were likely to be a lot of political demonstrations around the university in the weeks before graduation. He remin...