US History 1973 - 2014 Commonplace Book: Lecture 8, Society and Culture in the 1970s (Con't)

The '70s was the decade in which people put emphasis on the skin, on the surface, rather than on the root of things. It was the decade in which image became preeminent because nothing deeper was going on.

— Norman Mailer (1979)

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