Original sentence: In Lyman's interaction with and rantings about 1970 culture, we get yet another historical dimension to the story (Lyman's son teaches at Berkeley and a hippy daughter of a neighbor helps transcribe his tape-recorded notes)
Edited sentence: Foils for this plot line include Lyman's adult son, a Berkeley trained sociologist who is attributed to see little value in history, and a neighbors daughter who helps transcribe Lyman's tape-recorded notes while she is home on summer break from UC Berkeley where she was active in the "hippie" counterculture movement.Lyman's position in the contemporary culture of the late sixties provide another historical dimension to the story