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For people of my generation the key years were the '30s and '40s--the era of Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Fred and Ginger, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter.
Building on the huge success of his series paintings of the 1890s--the cathedrals and haystacks (now awkwardly renamed "grainstacks") and rows of poplars--Monet could afford to paint for himself alone.
It also invokes a remarkably complex set of references, and so might stand as an emblem of the '60s--the decade and the book--for a number of reasons.
Only in this case--unlike in Moynihan's--the redefinition has served to increase, rather than decrease, the required level of government intervention, shifting to the national treasury responsibility for hardships that individuals and localities once stoically assumed.
Yet, among the kind of people who once upon a time had admired Che and his cause--a lot of people, especially in the generation that was young in the 1960s--the more typical commentaries have balanced on a "but," as on a fulcrum.