stores complained: "The supermarkets will kill us; Twiggy the English girl had sparked a controversy over 'too thin models' Pippo Baudo was fixed on TV, Mike Bongiorno was advertising, African children were dying of hunger, all the stars wanted another child, America was at war with a distant country, priests were married, the girls died from cosmetic surgery, men changed sex, there were bullies, Paul McCartney wanted to marry, Milan, they said, was a team player too old and had bought goods: Hamrin, Cudicini, Malatrasi. Here you think you live in the future and instead learn to live in the past, or rather in a building that never changes. You know what it contended that in those years had to flip the formidable world? Of the same things today. And with the same words.
Certainly there was a divorce, the Berlin Wall, the mail. But the problems of 1968 were the same in 2008, sparked the same controversy and leave it at that. These days we fooled: we thought it was veterans, nostalgia, traditionalism. But no: there is an Italy that change in harmony with the world, and an Italy that never moves, always the same. Just a popular weekly journey into the era to find out: the new generation believe that is old is new for ages. If time does not pass does not get older. But even that is not ever growing.
The school? Always the same
"The school no longer provides a culture that satisfies kids of an age like our own technology. Teaching is still based on Homer and Manzoni, while the first astronauts are about to descend on the Moon. " April 1969
chastity? There was already ...
"The parliamentarians are attributed to a reasonable increase, they organize their lives and their old age, do not simply have a salary of 800 thousand pounds, to pay less taxes, without remembering the hardship of millions of retirees and other citizens "1 January 1969
reforms? Still there
"Millions of Italians who are waiting for the school reform and services, public assistance and welfare, the tax system and the code of criminal procedure do not have more patience. Wake up ladies and gentlemen, you do something for young and old in a hurry do not have much time to wait. " June 20, 1968
What is the UN? Already ...
"The UN is unable to stop the painful hostilities between Israel and Arab countries. What is the point then comes into operation if and when nobody listens? " April 18, 1968
Justice? Back in
"The crisis of the judiciary has reached unbearable limits: because of the incredibly backward read the work of judges takes place between very serious difficulties. Some people wait years for a verdict that recognizes a verdict. It takes more radical reforms promised but never implemented. We should start all over again. " January 22, 1969
Brains? Flee ...
"One of the most serious plague us is that of scientists who, after having been educated in our universities to try to cross the ocean to the U.S. a more favorable environment for their research and their studies. The solution? More funds to universities, to restructure the educational system and to reassess the incentives. " June 25, 1969
The industry? Damn ...
"No doubt the producer and the consumer there is a long series of steps often useless during which the price of the fruit is at least tripled, the farmer is paid 70 pounds to 25 pounds of oranges and apples that the housewife buys in stores to 300 and 120 pounds. " May 1968
prices?
crazy 'learn to defend ourselves from that increase: bread, milk, coffee and fruits have now reached the top absurd. " October 1969
Roma? Schediamoli ...
"A few months ago I had the impudence to say that it was time to solve the painful problem of the Roma. I said I would just isolate them and control them, ripping them to begging for to send them to school and work that should be strict with them, inflexible in enforcing the law. Well I get letters from all over the sentencing. I was accused of malice, hatred, racism, had no love for others. " May 23, 1968
policy? Costa, my dear ...
"The speed with which MPs have launched the action in their favor is in stark contrast to the characteristic slowness of other legislative measures intended to bring relief to millions of citizens. And this should not happen. " January 29, 1969
The police? Underpaid ...
"It is absurd that the police threaten everyday life for a few pounds of consolation. October 1969
Prostitutes? Out of the way ...
"The prostitutes should be removed from the road. Otherwise, you just pay taxes. " January 1968
Gasoline? Increases too ...
"But you can still increase the price of gasoline? Too many taxes levied on fuel. " February 1968
Classrooms? Always empty
"I have often lamented in these columns absenteeism of deputies and senators in the classroom because, unfortunately, the one and the other, after purchasing a monthly salary not indifferent, interpret their mission as a sinecure. " April 1968
University? It is to be reformed ...
"comprehensive and radical reform of the pension system is urgent as that of the university and how that tax and would be happy if it were implemented before other political complications occurring." October 10, 1968
Highways? Work ...
"The government was formed and developed without taking into account the concept of efficiency. You need a radical reform of a system that is best suited to the times in which we live. " September 19, 1968
Health Care? It is sick ... "The health, especially in the south, is water on all sides. We must entrust to the private health care. " September 1969
I recommended? Everywhere ...
"Too many to call for a recommendation are prepared to do anything because they do not really know anything. On TV there's an average of 150 requests spintarelle every day. Why is it so rare that it was advisable to put the right man at the right place? ". November 19, 1969
laws? Too old ...
"Parliament should make the effort to eliminate thousands of anachronistic and contradictory laws, older even than a century to lead the state to that degree of efficiency necessary to achieve, according to an fashion, the goal of the eighties. " May 9, 1969
pensions? At the risk
"The pension funds are close to paralysis, the finances of all mutuals are on the brink of the abyss, screaming from all sides that the reform of public assistance is essential and urgent" August 13, 1969
The money? Not in the mattress ...
"The future could be viewed with confidence if too many do not take away our own capital from abroad and if too many investors do not prefer to keep the money under the mattress rather than groped investment earnings to the country." December 12, 1968
State? Enemy of the city ...
"The state has a strange moral: If the city does not pay on time than you should impose the fines and interest charges but then made her comfortable for years when he is having to shell out money "12 September 1968
Bureaucracy? Infernal
"The bureaucracy of our state that is not reformed is a complication of unparalleled: the citizen is not only struggling to solve the problem but also to trace its practices ...». June 18, 1969
The referee? Horned ... "To reduce the damage of football wrong and make up for the mistakes of the referee must increase the powers of the linesman." January 1968
powders? Thin ...
"One of the most disturbing issues of our time is that air pollution: in Italy so far has done little or nothing to protect public health from toxic gases and airborne toxic chemicals released into rivers and lakes. The penis then do not scare anyone. " March 5, 1969
Bioethics? With a committee ...
"For some years the refinement of techniques of resuscitation makes it increasingly difficult to determine the exact time of death. When is a man is dead? It is necessary that a congress of doctors and biologists a fixed fee to determine what precise time of death and they always adhere to this canon wisely and prudently. " February 15, 1968
entities? Useless ... "There are countless unnecessary entities that cost taxpayers billions, and serve to satisfy the clientele of the various parties. Despite a law older than 12 years but a recent proposal of the Liberals no show of wanting to clean up in this jungle of favoritism and privilege "17 October 1968
Justice? Snail ...
"There's too much work to catch up: Justice is now faster when not to do justice." May 1969
The Bridge on the Strait? We ...
"In Calabria and Sicily would be born the longest bridge in the world, finally decided to build the colossal viaduct suspended Messina Strait. It will be 3,048 meters long and 60 high. The work will begin in 1971 and the project won an international competition. " April 1969
... then there is no hope
"Do not forget that a government fell in 1959 (it was a Fanfani government) not only for the price of gasoline but also for the racket of the fruit and vegetable markets. Since then the situation has not changed much, nor improved ... '. November 12, 1969
Massimo Veronese
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