Only yesterday : a quiz on the sixties / Paul Cowan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY : Warner Books, c1990.Description: xii, 115 pages ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0446390364
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973.92 20
LOC classification:
  • E 841 .C64 1990
Contents:
The questions -- Politics and news -- Music -- Theater and cabaret -- Literature and journalism -- Movies -- Sports -- Tv and Radio -- Pop culture
Summary: "The sixties are back, like never before -- in movies, on TV, in magazines, in books. The memories of that tumultuous and unforgettable decade still lend a rich dimension to our lives today. To those of us for whom that time feels like only yesterday --and for those of us too young to remember -- here is the often provocative, sometimes comic, and truly ultimate quiz on what was once called the Age of Aquarius. Written by one of the most outstanding journalists of New York's Village Voice and featuring over 600 fresh, evocative questions, 'Only Yesterday' brings back the memories. Here are the experiences the youth of America once shared, recalled in the details that made an intellectual discovery, a political passion, a first love so exciting. Here is the song lyrics, the movie, image, the sports event, the street demonstration, the fashion trend that will reopen the doors to an era unique in our history and forever in our hearts, that seems like 'Only Yesterday' " - From back of book.
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The questions -- Politics and news -- Music -- Theater and cabaret -- Literature and journalism -- Movies -- Sports -- Tv and Radio -- Pop culture

"The sixties are back, like never before -- in movies, on TV, in magazines, in books. The memories of that tumultuous and unforgettable decade still lend a rich dimension to our lives today. To those of us for whom that time feels like only yesterday --and for those of us too young to remember -- here is the often provocative, sometimes comic, and truly ultimate quiz on what was once called the Age of Aquarius. Written by one of the most outstanding journalists of New York's Village Voice and featuring over 600 fresh, evocative questions, 'Only Yesterday' brings back the memories. Here are the experiences the youth of America once shared, recalled in the details that made an intellectual discovery, a political passion, a first love so exciting. Here is the song lyrics, the movie, image, the sports event, the street demonstration, the fashion trend that will reopen the doors to an era unique in our history and forever in our hearts, that seems like 'Only Yesterday' " - From back of book.

Gift of Karen Wald.

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