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In other words, if I were Satan, I’d just keep on doing what he’s doing.

1965 seems like a long time ago, but Harvey was reacting to the news of the day. That was the year of the Supreme Court's decision that D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover couldn't be banned for obscenity. (How about for being really boring?)

The USSC decision banning prayer from public schools in response to the suit by Madelyn Murray O'Hair (Harvey's "atheist" in the column) was around 1961.

Making psychology and psychoanalysis the gods that explain everything (as opposed to God) was such a hot phenomenon by the 1960s that a Number 1 hit on the pop charts in 1962 was a parody of psychoanalysis called Walk Right In. It was the most successful recording ever published for the Communist label Vanguard Records. There had been a famous 1957 book on psychology ("motivational research") in advertising by Vance Packard called The Hidden Persuaders.

It's funny: Liberals made psychology a god, but at the time, they were as creeped-out about the results as anyone else.

1965 was also the first year that hippies became a national phenomenon, with girl-hair on boys, and Day-Glo paint on girls. You know, we talk a lot about 1968, but 1965 was a really bad year for reality.