It doesn't seem to be quite as easy to get a job as a tenured English professor these days as it was for this guy. Maybe that's why our generation is more nervous.
It reads as if Stevie Nicks had been part of Pink Floyd. Wonder how Prof. Edmundson grades such paragraphs.
It should be said that it was a lot easier to graduate from college with little or no debt in those days. Private college tuition for the 1973-1974 school year was probably under $3000. One could often find work in the summer (not coding interships, but manual labor) that would bring in $1200 or $1500.
