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Five years after the University Hall bust and student strike at Harvard, I can appreciate the need for some leading participants in those upheavals to indulge in petty mythmaking. After all, the invention of a few colorful stories about martyrs, villains and dastardly deeds can liven up the historical record. Instead of the drab truth, they present us with history as a melodrama in which good guys line up against bad guys. More than that, myths can serve a useful social purpose. They help us to justify past revolutionary struggles and to raise present radical consciousness...
According to Dyen, a policeman was clubbing a student in the Yard during the bust. "A kid in a wheel chair, probably a friend of the guy being beaten, rolled up and pushed against the cop and told him to cut it out. The cop turned around and slammed the kid so hard he just sailed out of his wheel chair onto the ground...
Near the end of the bust when the police were taking students out of the building, a student in a wheel chair did appear coming along the path from Memorial Church. No one was near him; he was propelling his chair by himself in the direction of University Hall. I remember thinking he looked extremely agitated. His head was swaying from side to side and he was shouting loudly. Still with no person close to him, he swerved up to the space between University Hall and Thayer. I saw him pause and look around to see if anyone was watching...
...expected to get killed. It was like watching the dogs go after the foxes." This really wins the prize. I never said this insane garbage, if I had I'd deserve the Masochist of the Year award. What did inspire me was the tremendous spirit of people during the bust. Unlike foxes being chased by hounds, it was a tremendous, collective sort of heroism, with everyone much more concerned about each other and about the issues than about ourselves. Locked inside University Hall, ready for the cops on the morning of the bust, we knew we were right...
...Against heavy odds, John Clive, a professor of history and literature at Harvard, manages to build a respectable case for a respectable Macaulay. Ten years ago Clive's Macaulay might have earned equally admiring reviews in the back pages of literary periodicals, then sunk like a Victorian bust in the Thames. Today it stands massively in all the best bookstore windows, a nominee for this year's National Book Awards in not one but two categories-history and biography...