1. Want to know where the post-war American counterculture started? In a small cafe in Chicago with Mike Nichols and Elaine May on stage.
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3. It was the heydey of the University of Chicago as an egghead hothouse, overloaded with baby-faced brainiacs (Susan Sontag, for one).
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4. Freud was in the air & a general dissatisfaction with the conformist mainstream. Hefner was starting up his version of sexual liberation
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@HeerJeet Isnt the chicago blues bohemian?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Also, as an arguably underrepresented epicenter of early black civil rights activism: http://bit.ly/1vtI4QP . -
@HeerJeet (Which, for many, was an even more consequential counterculture than the comedic achievements of Second City and its ilk.) - Show replies
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