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AN ARKANSAN VIEWS IT ALL by Sally Cory Do you have a lot of them long-haired hippies out there? Folks back home think I ' ve gone off to a strange land, filled with the evils of a new world. I was transplanted into University of Arizona life, a culture that was to me ad- vanced and liberal. I came from Arkansas; I am a hillbilly fifty years behind the world I see here. And now people are telling me that Arizona is fifty years behind the rest of Amer- ica is that good or bad? And where does that put me? A hundred years archaic? I walk around, a dazed spectator in another era, liberated from my capsule, listening to today. Where did today come from? It is the result of every genera- tion that has existed, every society that has changed the world. Did youth always want to revolutionize the culture, always end up content to be a parent with the comforting thought that the next genera- tion would be able to do what theirs had not? Merle Haggard: I ' m just an Oakie from Muskogee. . . Who is the Oakie from Muskogee? Aren ' t there oakies, too, from, Los Angeles and New York City and Miami and Washington D.C. and Tucson? Certain- ly I grew up in an oakie atmos- phere. I remember a voice from a long time ago saying, It ' s about time somebody did something about those Ken- nedys. They were taking over the country. I ' m glad he got shot. There were swirls before my eyes of the golden Kennedy era, the great daz- zling balls revolving around beautiful Jacqueline, Caroline riding her pony with her hair flying, little John-John romp- ing with the puppies, the Presi- dent rocking silently in his straight-backed wooden chair. They were just people. A shot echoed from Dallas, and oakies the world over rejoiced. Marilyn Monroe couldn ' t face any more of the oakies, and she solved the problem her own way. I was at camp that August when somebody told me, Marilyn Monroe killed herself yesterday. I didn ' t believe it. Why should she have done a thing like that? She had everything beauty, fame, money, men. A regular Richard Cory. I ' d just got around to dis-
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covering Elvis Presley, a bit late in his career, when the Beatles invaded to steal the hearts of all my girlfriends. They all look alike! I pro- tested. I can ' t tell them a- part! And what outrageous haircuts they wore. Who were they, these shaggy-haired moppets with the funny ac- cents? Were they the real start of it all, the harbingers of tomorrow that has become today? The four prophets, John, Paul, George, and Ringo. If my son ever comes home looking like that... threaten- ed oakie mothers everywhere. In ninth-grade civics class we were taught about Viet Nam; I pictured it vaguely as being somewhere in Africa. Taking a test, I couldn ' t re- member whether or not Sai- gon was in China. We don ' t burn our draft cards on Main Street, sang the Oakio, and suddenly it was happening. What was a draft card anyway, and why would anybody want to burn one? The word peace filtered into everyday voca- bulary, even as people I knew were being sent away to fight for some unknown cause in an unreal country. Today three Americans were reported killed in Viet Nam, said the newscaster, and 87 North Vietnamese are believe slain. A real triumph so many of them dead! Kill the Commies! The Love Generation. But oakies don ' t burn their draft
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