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A Year That Changed Much

Andrew594 Wrote: Jul 19, 2009 7:56 PM
"A Year of Slipping The Leash", your other(s) title, is aptly descriptive. The cultural devolution we've so rapidly engaged in (by any anthropological std.), culminating in irrational abominations such as extensive and now socially inculcated sexual license between and among men, consumating finally in homosexual 'marriage, a social construct entirely foreign to any previous society, artificial and often abortifacient birth control, (the nauseating, egregious list just goes on and on), ending horrifically and catastrophically in abortion on demand, has just decimated, literally, more than literally, our society. We're not at all what we once were, a very bad thing, by orders of magnitude, whatever the crazed libs may say to the...

WASHINGTON -- Fifty years ago, on July 21, 1959, Grove Press won permission to publish D.H. Lawrence's novel "Lady Chatterley's Lover." Two days later, G.D. Searle, the pharmaceutical company, sought government approval for Enovid, the birth control pill. These two events, both welcome, were, however, pebbles that presaged the avalanche that swept away America's culture of restraint and reticence.

That change is recounted by Fred Kaplan, an MIT Ph.D. and cultural historian, in "1959: The Year Everything Changed," an intelligent book with a silly subtitle. There never has been a year -- or a...

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