Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though intriguing, Lifton's thesis is simply a psychiatric twist on similar findings of other China-watchers. It is not new, just considerably more arcane; observers have duly noted similar death rattles in Communist revolutionaries from Marx to Castro...
...only place to start is with yourself. The principles of the good society aimed at creating what Fidel Castro calls the "communist consciousness" have already been glimpsed by many people. This has been the great spiritual contribution of the hippies to the American political thrust of today. Unselfishness, generosity, no hangups about one's personal possessions--this is the faith on which the improvement of future human societies depends. Along with these go the quintessentially hippie virtues of individual self-creativity and confident self-expression, a reverence for beauty, a gentleness and openness in one's dealings with others...
...soft blanket of civic disinterest. This takes official determination to forget the High Noon syndrome, ample communication with demonstration leaders and masses of calm cops who flood the premises, making sure that any violence is committed only by small groups of isolated, discredited protesters. When 25,000 anti-Castro Cubans wanted to picket the Republican Convention, for example, Miami Beach Police Chief Pomerance quietly diverted all but 75 to Miami Stadium and carefully cooled off his frazzled men in a special air-conditioned lounge adjoining the convention hall. The whole episode barely made the scene on television...
...acre farm was confiscated, his religious preaching got him arrested nine times, and unruly mobs hounded him with taunts of "Worm!", "Imperialist!" and "CIA agent!" No wonder Gerardo Gonzalez, 42, decided that it was time to leave Castro's Cuba. Gonzalez, better known as Kid Gavilan, the bolo-punching world welterweight boxing champion from 1951 to 1954, hopped a refugee airlift flight to Miami last week, leaving behind three sons, his mother, and wives Nos. 1, 2 and 3. Says "the Keed," now a Jehovah's Witness: "I don't think, if I had known...
...high schools responded by organizing a demonstration for July 26. The government granted them permission to hold the demonstration. It had also, however, given permission for the annual pro-Cuba parade to be held in the same place. The pro-Cuba demonstrators were supporters of Castro and thus considered Communist. When the two demonstrations came close to each other the police intervened with clubs and guns on the pretext of stopping a riot. Thirty-six prisoners were taken (one of them was Pete Seeger's daughter...