Certainly, “the seventies” is an elusive periodization, one that through both strategic & unwitting ambiguity has been repeatedly invoked during recent discussions concerning the AA’s future & its present. And yet the resulting ubiquity of such periodization has so abstracted that hallowed (as the invocations, compounded by the delirious name-dropping of notable alumni, would have us believe) moment in the school’s past that that moment has been rendered, I suspect, somewhat monolithic & opaque to current students (many of them born in the 1980s, some even the 1990s!)