Date: 2012-09-13 07:52 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
While I have not read the story, this "terror" is one of many things about the 60s which were and are exaggerated. Though perhaps Gene Wolfe - who spent some years at Texas A&M at about this time - was exposed to people who really were afraid. When I last worked at A&M, in this century, there were still people who were afraid of hippies. Hell, there were still people afraid of Lincoln.

I've recently been reading Ross MacDonald, and was expecting to enjoy his novels a lot less when they reached the 1960s. I shouldn't have worried. Lew Archer takes it in stride.

William Hyde
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