![]() ![]() Americans suffered through the threat of killer bees, “Deep Throat,” the Symbionese Liberation Army, a national meat boycott, “The Exorcist,” Moonies and the punishing self-help racket est, to which a hustler named Werner Erhard (né Jack Rosenberg) attracted followers as diverse as the Yippie Jerry Rubin and the Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin. Wade, the frantic American evacuation of Saigon, stagflation, the dawn of the “energy crisis” (then a newly minted term) - were adulterated with a steady stream of manufactured crises and cheesy cultural phenomena. The major mid-70s disruptions - the Watergate hearings and Richard Nixon’s abdication, Roe v. A period that yielded the blandest of modern presidents, Gerald Ford - “a Ford, not a Lincoln,” as he circumspectly described himself - is not to be confused with cataclysmic eras like the Civil War, the Great Depression and the Vietnam ‘60s. Next to the more apocalyptic spells of American history, the dismal span of 1973 to 1976 would seem a relative blip of national dyspepsia. ![]()
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