1970s

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When the working day is done
Oh girls, they wanna have fun
Oh, girls just wanna have fun

Cyndi Lauper

Girls Just Want to Have Fun

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Hazard, Robert. "Girls Just Want to Have Fun." Performed by Cyndi Lauper. She's So Unusual. Portrait Records, 1983.

Are you there God? It's me, Margaret. I just told my mother I want a bra. Please help me grow God. You know where.

Judy Blume

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

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Blume, Judy. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. Bradbury Press, 1970, ch. 5.

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.

Gil Scott-Heron

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"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised." Slogan among the Black Power movements. c. 1960.

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Apocolypse Now. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Omni Zoetrope, 1979.

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Dick, Phillip. "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later." 1978, Disneyland, Anaheim, CA, USA. Speech.

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Blazing Saddles. Directed by Mel Brooks, Crossbow Productions, 1974.

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Stoppard, Tom. Travesties. Royal Shakespeare Company, 10 June 1974, Aldwych Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1.

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Stoppard, Tom. Travesties. Grove Press, 1994, act 1.

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"The Spanish Inquisition." Monty Python's Flying Circus, written by Graham Chapman and John Cleese and Eric Idle, directed by Ian MacNaughton, season 2, episode 2, BBC, 1970.

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Krishnamurti, Jiddu. The Second Penguin Krishnamurti Reader, edited by Mary Lutyens. Penguin Books, 1973, pt. 1.

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Tuchman, Barbara W. Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45. Macmillan, 1972, ch. 8.

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Foucault, Michel. Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la prison [Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison]. Gallimard, 1975.

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Maclean, Norman. "A River Runs Through it." A River Runs Through It and Other Stories. University of Chicago Press, 1976.

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Ford, Gerald. Remarks in the U.S. House of Representatives in an effort to impeach Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. House of Representatives meeting. 15 Apr. 1970, House of Representatives Chamber, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it.

Vine Deloria, Jr.

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Deloria, Vine, Jr. "This Country Was a Lot Better Off When the Indians Were Running It." The New York Times, 8 Mar. 1970.

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Maclean, Norman. "A River Runs Through it." A River Runs Through It and Other Stories. University of Chicago Press, 1976.

You got to know when to hold 'em,
Know when to fold 'em,
Know when to walk away,
and know when to run.

Kenny Rogers

The Gambler

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Schlitz, Don. "The Gambler." Performed by Kenny Rogers. The Gambler. United Artists Group, 1978.

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Chinatown. Directed by Roman Polanski, Long Road Productions/Robert Evans Company, 1974.

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Waters, Roger. "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2." Performed by Pink Floyd. The Wall. Harvest Records/Columbia Records, 1979.

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Sontag, Susan. "Freak Show." The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 1973.

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

Barbara Wand

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Wand, Barbara. Spoken at the Only One Earth: The Care and Maintenance of a Small Planet conference. United Nations Conference on the Human Environment. June 1972, Stockholm, Sweden.