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1964!
In 1964, the world was a different place.
There was no Google yet. Or Yahoo. Or Stumbleupon, for that matter.
In 1964, the year of my birth, the best selling movie was Mary Poppins. People buy popcorn in the cinema lobby the glazing eyes when looking at the poster.
Remember, this was before the DVD. In fact, even Friday before the VHS. People are really watching movies in the theater, and they can not download online. Imagine a crowded place, laughter, excitement, novelty. And mostly all without 3D computer effects.
Do you know who won an Oscar this year? Oscar for best film went to My Fair Lady.Oscar for best foreign language film of the year went yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Top actor Rex Harrison was his role as Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady.Top actress Julie Andrews for her roll as Mary Poppins and Mary Poppins. The best director? George Cukor for My Fair Lady.
In 1964, when I arrived on this planet, books were still popularly read on paper, not on digital devices. Trees are felled to get the word out page. Number of an American bestseller time was a spy who came with Cold John le Carré. Oh, so many years ago. Have you read that book? Have you heard of him?
In 1964 ...
Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland dissolved.
US Senator Barry Goldwater announces that he will seek the Republican nomination for president.
In his first State of the Union, US President Lyndon Johnson declared a "fight against poverty".
The United States Surgeon General Luther Leonidas Terry reports that smoking can be hazardous to health, the first such declaration by the US government.
Malcolm X left the Nation of Islam.
The Supreme Court of the United States decides that the Congress of the municipality must be approximately equal in population.
Merv Griffin's game show Jeopardy! debuted on NBC;
Art Fleming is its first host.
Three high school friends in Hoboken, New Jersey, to open the first Blimpie restaurant on Washington Street.
IBM announces 360th systems
36th Academy Awards ceremony was held.
Nelson Mandela makes his "I am prepared to die" speech at the Rivonia Trial, a classic anti-apartheid movement.
It is a world where I was born. Since then, others have changed it.
Nobel Prize for Literature that year went to Jean-Paul Sartre.
The award of the Nobel Peace Prize went to Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nobel Prize in Physics went Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov, Aleksandr Prokhorov and Charles Hard Townes from the Soviet Union and the United States for fundamental work in quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle.
Feeling this created great. But that did not stop the planet from spinning, on and on, year after year.
The year in which to grow bigger, older, smarter, and if you were lucky, sometimes wiser.
Year in which he also lost some things.
Having got misplaced.
Memories fade.
Friends diverged.
Best friends, you tried to keep. That is what is important in life, right?
In 1960 the very special decade.
Swinging sixties saw the rise of the counterculture.
It is a recreational drugs and casual sex.
Many countries gained independence from their colonial rulers.
Several government turned to the left.
In the UK, the Labour party gaining strength.
Vietnam War continues.
Algerian war comes to an end.
In the United States, Hispanics fight to end racial discrimination and socioeconomic inequalities.
Feminism is constantly growing.
Art House films arrive in theaters.
The Beatles, Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones to play your music.
The US and the Soviet Union in the immediate vicinity of military conflict during the missile crisis in Cuba.
Nixon became president of the United States.
The man land on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission of the United States.
The first heart transplant occurs.
The first computer game, Spacewar, was created.
Do you remember the movie that was all the rage when you were 15? Apocalypse Now.
Do you remember the song playing on the radio when you were 15? Maybe it was my Sharona The Knack.
Were you in love?
Who you were in love with, remember?
In 1964,
15 years ago, long ago, when they were born, the song House of the Rising Sun by The Animals at the top of the American charts. Do you know the lyrics?
Do you know the melody?
Sing along.
There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And that was the bane of many poor boys
And God I know I'm one
...
There's a kid out there, shouting, playing. It does not care about time. She does not know about the weather. He cries and plays and thinks time is forever. You were one child.
When the 9, the film Fantastic Planet is played.
When 8, there was Napoleon and Samantha.
When I was 7, there was a Disney movie out called The Aristocats. Does this ring a bell?
6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 ... it's 1964. There's TV noise coming from the second floor. Someone turned the volume way too high. The sun is burning from above. These are the second time. Show playing on the TV and the love of my life. The sun goes down. Someone switches channels. There is Milton Berle Show now. It is a world where I was born.
Progress, year after year. Do you wonder where the world is heading towards?
The technology available today would have blown your mind in 1964.
Do you know what is invented in 1964?
Solid-state electronic calculator.
In the last days of summer 1964
He found a family undivided, divided into war
Turning a son against his elders, discuss right and wrong
He is the image of his father, although they do not see eye to eye
...
It is from the song man of my word to Bob Carlisle.
In 1964, a new character entered the world of comics: Hawkeye. Bang! Boom!
But this is just fiction, right?
In the real world, and in 1964, Bridget Fonda was born. And Keanu Reeves. Rob Lowe, too. And I, of course. Anyone individual. Anyone special. Anyone taking a different path through life.
It is 2015.
The world is a different place.
What path did you take?
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Post je objavljen 28.02.2015. u 10:47 sati.