#1964.

[rhapsodynew]

The Beatles during their first visit to the United States, 1964.

[aiiaiiiyo]

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[atomic-chronoscaph]

John Astin and Carolyn Jones - The Addams Family (1964)

[flowerytale]

Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980

[gameraboy2]

Peanuts, November 13, 1964

[pleading-the5th]

being a lone allan supporter before the movie even came out and now seeing people watch barbie and posting about him is wild man i was shouting into the void and now the void is shouting back

[notdayle]

Morticia visit Gomez in his office 😳

[clarulitas]

Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins (1964) dir. Robert Stevenson

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Mario Savio giving a speech at Berkeley in 1964 during an occupation of the university.

I mistakenly labeled this as an occupation and speech against the Vietnam war. It was in fact an occupation by the Free Speech Movement, who objected to attacks on free speech and academic freedom during the cold war, when "radical" student groups were banned and faculty had to swear an anti-Communist loyalty oath or be fired. Students objected to universities being used as a source of knowledge and innovation for the military industrial complex but not being allowed to speak their minds that, which does have a lot of parallels with the current occupations.

There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus -- and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it -- that unless you're free the machine will be prevented from working at all!!

[theoptia]

Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980; February 17th, 1970

Text ID: I don't feel guilt at being unsociable, though I may sometimes regret it because my loneliness is painful. But when I move into the world, it feels like a moral fall—like seeking love in a whorehouse.

[rhapsodynew]

Dorchester Hotel, 1964. Ringo Star and George Harrison dance with their mothers at a party in honor of the premiere screening of the film "A Hard Day's Night".

June 1964. The Beatles are rehearsing with drummer Jimmy Nichol, who briefly replaced the ill Ringo Star during a big tour. Ringo got out of the hospital and joined the band on June 11th. Two weeks of frenzied fame as part of The Beatles did not help Jimmy in developing his own further musical career, and already in 1965 he declared bankruptcy.

[aiiaiiiyo]

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Martin Luther King Jr. playing with his children Dexter King, Yolanda King and Bernice King in their backyard in Atlanta on November 8, 1964.

Photos by Flip Schulke

[zegalba]

André Bloc: Sculptures Habitacles (1964)

[flowerytale]

Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980