Friday, January 12, 2018

Book Excerpt for the Day


    Singer Janis Joplin, who in 1968 was screeching out her voice with a California group called Big Brother and the Holding Company, said that she was not a hippie, because hippies believed in trying to make the world better.  Instead she said she was a beatnik: “Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say, ‘The hell with it’, stay stoned, and have a good time.”


    (from 1968 – The Year That Rocked The World by Mark Kurlansky)

  9*/10.  The complete review is here.
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