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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2. We don't think of Chicago (a square-shouldered, pragmatic city) as epicenter of bohemianism but something was happening in there in 1950s
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@HeerJeet Also, as an arguably underrepresented epicenter of early black civil rights activism: http://bit.ly/1vtI4QP .1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet (Which, for many, was an even more consequential counterculture than the comedic achievements of Second City and its ilk.)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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@Dan_E_Solo Oh yeah, there's a whole political culture that deserves its own discussion. Later Chicago Panthers also very important.
12:59 PM - 20 Nov 2014
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