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Most peo- inflation and unemployment are the bogey-men. pie are fed up with the pure pornography that has nmtrigtr. , _ Most obvious evidence of this is the race forarresideett in ed. Even that sacred cow. hockey. has turned people off, the States. There’s not a liberal in sight. It’s like a game including aficionados, with the mindless. but contrived vie of musical chairs in which every participant is striving to _ lence of its goon shows. Hijackers are harried and hunted . be a little farther to the right than the guy who made the down. last speech. . Maybe, just maybe. we’re in for; brief Golden Age, in ' I'm not entirely unhappy about this swing of the pendulum. which the arts will flourish, ripotts will became a thing of While revolutions often produce freedom, they also produce the past, excellence will be restored " an aspiration of the excesses, and that of the Sixties was no exception. F young. and children will honor their parents. But don't hold It produced a violence, a callousness and a viciousness your breath. _ that was probably unparalleled in western civilization‘s Maybe. Just maybe. movies Will start having I Mot anili- Not all of it was bad, of course. Many of the old shibol- leths were swept away and replaced by something saner. The social political and economic status of women' took a giant step forward. There was a new honesty, as much of the stuff our parents used to sweep under the carpet was pulled out, looked at squarely, and found to bemerely funny. not frightening. T . . . There was a new and healthy skepticism toward politi- cians, culminating‘in the not so ihcredible discovery that some were liars, some crooks, some both. _ h Our institutes of higher learning got a good shake-up. and their traditional stuffiness swung toward something verg- ing on license. history. ' Remember? The kids were on drugs. The parents were on the booze. Cops were called pigs. Language that would shock a sailor came out of the mouths of babes. It was fash- imable to be filthy if you were young. Hard rock replaced anything resembling music to be listened to. Cults of var- ious degrees of obscenity flourished. Muggings multiplied. Hijacking hit the headlines. It was a nasty, nervous decade for society to grape through and as a basically conservative person, I'm glad it's fading, even though it has left a fair bit of detritus as it ehbs. m short, a lot of the phoniness of our society was exposed for what it was. A lot of rocks were turned over. and a lot of things crawled out from under them, and died in the hard, clear light. . That's all to the good. Every revolution must crack some eggs to make an omelet. And every revolution inflicts wounds. some of them savage. Two games are lost by Waterloo Bantams By Dennis Rioux On Tuesday June 8, Wa- terloo travelled to Gait and lost a wild game 13-11. 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