Show Hey Culligan Man 1 Enter 1970 r r Jim Culligan This has been one century so far THE FIRST DECADE saw the introduction of electric lights automobiles airplanes and record record record rec rec- ord players THE SECOND D DECADE E CAD E brought us home radios fighter planes tanks submarines and poison gas not to mention World War I. I THE THIRD DECADE produced produced produced pro pro- the liberation of women electric home appliances prohibition prohibition prohibition pro pro- and big time gangsters stock market speculation jazzy music and finally the big crash of 1929 THE FOURTH DECADE D E CAD E seemed an endless array of breadlines hunger marchers unemployment and world re revolutions revolutions revolutions re- re and ended with the beginning of World War II THE FIFTH DECADE was the fighting decade the war the post war education squeeze the baby boom transistors the in introduction introduction introduction in- in of television antibiotics antibiotics antibiotics computers and Red China THE SIXTH DECADE was the beginning of the color color color col col- or TV and the Korean conflict heaven forbid we should call it a war Rock music and the beatniks THE SEVENTH DECADE gave us the hippies Vietnam Black Power multiple assassinations integrated circuits and finally footprints on the moon And now comes the EIGHTH DECADE No one can blame us if we approach it rather gingerly ginger ginger- ly and with a certain amount of apprehension Its It's rather like a magic act in which the magician appeared in a puff of smoke ate a dish of razor blades escaped escaped escaped esca esca- ped from a concrete vault cut himself in half and jumped from froma a 1000 ft high platform into a wet sponge and now rises to declare That was only the beginning beginning beginning be be- ginning folks you aint seen yet I guess that a country tough enough to withstand gas war war- fare bootleg booze the stock market crash depression the atom bomb air pollution and the Beatles will survive whatever whatever whatever what what- ever delights the may bring So be of good cheer make your New Year resolution however however however how how- ever fragile they may be and plan to learn a little from what lies ahead The Cries of Doom may threaten us with extinction by air pollution water pollution the bomb the weed and the pill but I have a sneaking suspicion that we will survive this decade as we have the others a little bit farther away from the cove the club and the hawk and a little closer to the stars the truth and the dove |