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WHAT WERE THE SIXTIES really like? My lifespan encompassed the fab decade but I must have been looking away at the time.
Truth to tell, I wasn't prepared for sexual revolution or an alternative lifestyle when the 1960s dawned, being engrossed in marriage, following a church wedding in 1959. A Catholic cathedral wedding, actually. I'd also achieved my first foreign assignment (to New York) as a journalist; careerism was starting to grip. When the decade closed, I was engaged in multiple fatherhood, a virtually exclusive mind-altering state.
Moreover, I spent six-tenths of the fab decade in Japan, where the counter-culture of the sixties was highly ...