This story is historically funny. It's a 1969 piece by the staid, decidedly unhip New York Times about Woodstock that shows the writer/paper struggling to explain the event to its readers -- almost none of whom, it seems safe to say, would have gone to Woodstock, let alone approved of it.
So the story puts quotes around all the key words and then tries to explain them. From 40 years down the road, I'm reading this thinking of Saturday Night Live's Chris Farley doing his skit with the "air quotes." I counted words in quotes 16 times.
At one point, the story talks about "soft drugs" that allow users to "groove" on the sounds. It continues:
'This means that the electronically amplified vibrations are heard almost to the exclusion of any other extraneous sounds. It is a kind of intense concentration, according to many of the marijuana users who came to the festival.'
Guess you have to give the Times an "A" for "effort."
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