"'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it'll leave you only comfortably numb. For starters, it may be the whitest, straightest, most conservative show seen in a New York museum since psychedelia was new."

-- Jerry Saltz

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“He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had happened to him.”
“Anger is a choice, as well as a habit. It is a learned reaction to frustration, in which you behave in ways that you would rather not. In fact, severe anger is a form of insanity. You are insane whenever you are not in control of your behavior. Therefore, when you are angry and out of control, you are temporarily insane.”
“Well, I believe she went in to rescue some Raggers from the pits,â€ Cuffs said. â€œShe wasnâ€™t all that specific.â€ â€œShe went in to rescue â€” why would she do that?â€ Amon gripped the ironwork, studying the streetlordâ€™s face. Was he lying? And if so, what was the purpose? â€œGuess sheâ€™s kind of taken with us,â€ Cuffs said. â€œYou know, the glamor of the gang life and all. Getting beat up every other day, arrested for crimes you didnâ€™t commit, long nights in gaol, sleeping in the cold and wet. Itâ€™s...seductive.â€ He raised an eyebrow.”
“In my case what happened next in 1999 was that I fell apart over that back nine. When I saw I was in genuine contention that year I felt like throwing up. That remains probably the most nervous I've ever been on a golf course.”

Source : "Leaner and meaner" by Bill Elliott, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.
“We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars.”
“Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.”
“They wanted me as coach.”
“Practices should be for the players and not the coach. Practices should be fun for the players, positive in nature, and last no more than two hours.”

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