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True to Type. All over Paris, there were scenes reminiscent of the street battles of the Revolution of 1848 and the Paris Commune of 1871. On the Boulevard St. Germain, a workman dressed in blue overalls attacked the pavement with a heavy, pointed bar in an attempt to free the first paving stone, which would liberate the others. As soon as he had succeeded, a grandmotherly woman took her place in a line of Parisians that quickly formed to pass the stones to others who were building a barricade. On the Boulevard St. Michel, a student sat atop the barricade...
...VIOLENCE used by police on Tuesday morning, only too familiar to veterans of civil rights and peace demonstrations, quickly created a campus united behind the demonstrators' original six demands. The atmosphere on Morningside Heights combined the French Commune and Remember the Alamo with Samuel Beckett. Interspersed in the lazy groups of students lounging on sunny lawns or arguing in tense knots by the steps of some now-famous buildings were about 200 students who looked like they'd fallen off a medium-sized building, or been in a prize fight or a bad automobile accident. There were many closed purple...
...evening wears on I feel less useful and more alienated, so I assign myself the task of keeping the mayonnaise covered. After covering it 12 times I give up and decide to write home. I wonder whether the Paris Commune was this boring...
...volunteer for jock-watch from 2:00 to 3:30 but do not wake up the next man and stay out on the entrance window ledge until five. I am to let no-one in as we now have a population of 150 and we want a stable commune--no tourists. We even consider a Stalinist purge to reduce the mouths to feed. Only tonight does my roommate decide to occupy a building. I have about seven degrees of disdain and contempt for him but he got in before my watch. I stamp on the hand of anyone who leaves...
...Moved" and realize that something is ending. The cops arrive. The officer bullhorns us: "On behalf of the trustees of Columbia University and with the authority vested in me... " That's as far as he is able to get, as we answer his question and all others with our commune motto -- "Up against the wall, mother fuckers." We can't hold the barricade because the doors open out and the cops simply pull the stuff out. They have to cut through ropes and hoses and it takes them fifteen minutes before they can come through. All the while they...