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Sixties 6oing on Seventies A Volume in the Series PERSPECTIVES ON THE SIXTIES Edited by Barbara L. Tischler SERIES EDITORIAL BOARD Clayborne Carson, Stanford University William Chafe, Duke University Morris Dickstein, Queens College, CUNY Jose Limon, University of Texas, Austin Elaine May, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Sixties Ooing On Seventies Revised Edition U.W.E.L. LEARNING RESOURCES )U ACC No. ,—* /-v '■*** 230727b CLASS| Nora Sayre ''-rrl «rrb.3 ■ m <^1 10 m Rutgers University Press New Brunswick, New Jersey Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sayre, Nora. Sixties going on seventies / Nora Sayre, p. cm. — (Perspectives on the sixties) ISBN 0-8135-2274-9 (alk. paper) 1. United States—Politics and government—1945-1989. 2. United States—Civilization—1945- I. Title. II. Series. E839.4.S29 1996 973.9—dc20 95-42680 CIP British Cataloging-in-Publication information available Copyright © 1973 by Nora Sayre Afterword copyright © 1974 by Nora Sayre Revised edition copyright © 1996 by Nora Sayre All rights reserved. Published by Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, Newjersey. Manufactured in the United States of America. Originally published 1973 by Arbor House Publishing Co. “Marching,” “Black Panthers and White Radicals,” and “Shoot¬ ing Revolution” were first published in Esquire. “Five Years After Kent State” was published in Ms. “The John Birch Society” and “Strike and Lulls: Harvard” are reprinted by permission of The Village Voice, Copyright by The Village Voice, Inc., 1971, 1973. The Progressive, the New Statesman and London Magazine are thanked for permission to reprint material that first appeared in their pages, often in a different form. This Edition is for Toni Willison Martha Eluggins Malcolm Willison Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 PART I EXERCISES IN UPHEAVAL Democratic Death-In: Chicago, August 1968 11 Marching, 1969-1972 18 Conversations in Watts, January 1968 31 Black Panthers and White Radicals: Oakland, July 1969 39 Black Panthers and White Radicals: Philadelphia, September 1970 46 Shooting Revolution, January 1970 56 Voices from the GI Movement, February 1971 68 Frank Rizzo and Philadelphia, June 1971 82 The John Birch Society, July 1971 96 Strikes and Lulls: Harvard, July 1972 104 Strikes and Lulls: Yale, May 1970 and June 1972 116 Five Years After Kent State, September 1975 133 viii Contents PART II UTOPIA AND INFERNO Boarding in Heaven, April 1968 147 Wages of Wrath, May 1970 156 PART III NEW YORK FOR NATIVES New York for Natives, August 1969 165 Blackout, November 1965 171 The Cult of Ayn Rand, January 1966 173 Seductive Banks, February 1966 177 Paperback Gothics, October 1966 180 Requiem for the World-Journal-Tribune, May 1967 183 League for Spiritual Discovery, December 1966 187 College for Policemen, March 1967 191 Go With the Flow, July-August 1967 201 Memories of the East Village, April 1969 205 A Riot Averted, October 1967 208 New Yorkers and George Wallace, October 1968 213 Harlem on Many Minds, February 1969 218 Christmas Crises in Manhattan, December 1965 225 Adult Games, December 1968 226 Reels of California: A New Yorker’s View, 1969-1972 229 PARI IV THEATER AND A COUPLE OF MOVIES Off-Off-Broadway, June 1967 237 Further Off Broadway, March 1968 242 Howling for Help, July 1968 245