Gustave Klumpp, Wedding Dream in Nudist Colony (1971)

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December 30, 2004:

Your friends, dressed as '60s longhairs, present an educational sketch re "snick", SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, highlighting its role in the anti-war movement. The people look like painted clowns, with washmops for wigs and ruby red rouge on dimpled cheeks. But the mood becomes ugly. A man with graying temples snickers derisively -- a professor, you think -- so that you turn on him with contempt and even violence, shaking your fist, berating him with strong words, sometimes obscene words, until the smugness on his face turns to alarm.

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