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...SHORT history of rock and roll festivals is circumscribed by three singular events: the Monterey Festival, the Lake Bethel Festival, and a day-long concert at the Altamont Speedway. Each event's claim to singularity is by this time a matter of commonly received opinion: as our commentators have it. Monterey marked the apotheosis of the San Francisco-based flower culture, the Bethel concert (Woodstock) was the great coming together for, in its advertisement's words, three days of Love, Peace and Music, and Altamont the death of flower-power, the death of Love, the death of Rock, depending...
Both the festival at Altamont and the one at Bethel are events identified as places, or, as those not yet embarrassed about the whole charade will tell you, states of mind. The interrelationship between the two events is so directly drawn by so many people that one can't help but nurture some suspicions. The formal integrity seems extravagant-Woodstock's tacky dreams shimmer a little too loudly, while Altamont's function as some sociological reality principle is dramatically too neat. It seems like we've been treated to some show in which one character has been introduced only...
...Bethel also said he thought a Teacher Exchange similar to the Job Exchange might help soften effects of the "Ph. D. glut" for Harvard graduates...
Although the first Job Exchange is only three-quarters of a page in the upcoming May 3 issue, Christopher Reed, managing editor of the Bulletin, said that ads "are coming in furiously now," and Bethel said the Bulletin would print as many pages of ads as it finds sponsors...
Ptashne emphatically denied Bethel's charges. According to Ptashne, the conference involved "a discussion of health, transport, and communication facilities in the underdeveloped countries. To say that there was any planning for violent revolution anywhere is ridiculous...