Word: avatars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last summer 1) widespread media coverage of the use of marijuana by youth in general, 2) the holding of several be-ins in the spring, 3) the emergence of a psychedelic newspaper called Avatar, 4) the appearance of a head shop on Mass. Ave. called "Headquarters East," 5) the creation of a Diggers' free food house on Columbia St. in Cambridge, 6) the opening of a draft resistance headquarters, and 7) the movement of long-haired, funny-dressed people out of such underground (lit.) handouts as the Blue Parrot Cafe into the streets--all these things combined with...
When Ken Emerson, the rock reviewer for Avatar, and I interviewed and photographed Country Joe a few weeks ago, we asked him what he thought of Dylan's new album. "You know," said Joe, "I used to really dig Dylan and what he was doing. The new album, I'm not really sure. That hillbilly stuff just isn't our kind of scene. You know, all those Okies." I figured he just missed the whole album. There is only one song, the last one, where the message is the Okie sound. Though that one really threw people because Dylan...
...were only marginally relevant--even to the judge at Brigham's hearing Thursday, who agreed not to issue a complaint if the Divinity School students and their runaways cleared out of Somerville by midnight. This enforcement of the letter of the law echoes the campaign Cambridge has waged against Avatar, and the Somerville officials' pristine distaste for those they label undesirables is particularly loathesome. Once off Somerville's streets, the runaways do cease to be Somerville's problem, but the effect of the city's action is to obstruct the efforts of those trying to help the youths...
...only read a few sentences in Avatar, but that was enough to convince me that it was filth," Vellucci said. "Maybe it's the intelligent way to say things now, but that wasn't the way I was brought...
Wayne Hansen, editor of Avatar, spent two hours on the stand yesterday explaining the philosophy of Avatar. "We're a 'family' of 50 or 60 young people who live together at Fort Hill in Roxbury. We're centered around the personality and ideas of Mel Lyman, who embodies the highest philosophical ideals," he said. Kennedy's concern for the educational situation in the District of Columbia. He created the Chase Commission, which recommended the establishment of a federally-sponsored college in the District. Congress, which controls the financial affairs of the District, allocated funds for a university and appointed...