Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mile radius of San Francisco Bay. Many of the trends that have shaken the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s-the hippie movement, the drug culture, widespread sexual laxness, campus revolts and ghetto riots-seem to have emerged first in California. Moreover, since the Free Speech Movement started at Berkeley in 1964, the Bay Area has been a festering center for radical political activity, though the number of people involved has greatly declined since the leftist movement's heyday during the Viet Nam War. Thus the events of September 1975 seemed to reinforce the area's reputation...
...strike and burrow underground again in such places as the working-class neighborhoods of Los Angeles and the Mission District in San Francisco or the squalid slums of East Oakland and Sacramento. In addition, many terrorists are believed to be hiding among the students and transient street people of Berkeley's South Campus section. Furtive meetings between the underground and aboveground activists undoubtedly take place in the area's many coffeehouses, bars and parking lots. Other good meeting places are the parks known to students as People's Park and Ho Chi Minh Park...
Instead I went to the Berkeley Student Union to ponder my predicament. I sat there, confused, a little depressed, considering my options. A smiling, humming, attractive Jewish-looking woman walked in. Eye contact. The ethnicity clicked. She came over, friendly, talkative, from Long Island originally. Small talk, poetry, politics, time passes. Then I received an invitation to dinner--"I live with this big family and we always have lots of people over to dinner...how about...
...requirements and live this life of righteousness, direction and meaning. Of the seventy people who went up to the farm with me, two weeks later I was the only one to leave. Many are still there and will become part of Reverend Moon's family, walking through Berkeley or Boston or Paris, bringing in new blood or selling flowers on the street. I left while others couldn't and only through an understanding of my own motivation to leave have I begun to understand the full power of this movement...
...forsaking Jesus and damning myself and my ancestors. It all sounds crazy to me now, but while they were telling me this, I believed it and felt ashamed. Still, my gut said to go, and after a great display of determination I was driven down to Berkeley...