Word: eras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stalin-era prisoner sues...
THEY ADVERTISED this book: "The Sixties died on April 19, 19 6." Phil Ochs dangling from his belt jammed in the bathroom doorway; it marked the end, we are told, of an era that blew away with his ashes...
...anything written about him yet. It does what biographies are supposed to do; it provides a detailed account of Ochs' life from beginning to end. Through Phil Ochs' life Eliot tries to capture the essence of the '60s. However, it becomes the story not of the death of an era, but of its still-birth...
THOUGH clearly one of Ochs' greatest admirers. Eliot doesn't avoid the painful facts of Ochs' last eight years. Eliot's account of those last years is a telling description of personal disintegration. The era had disintegrated first and it was Ochs' shell that people saw during those last years. And so the most chilling story in the book, the story of "John Train," a vicious, violent persona that Ochs crawled into in 1975, is tragic, but it is only a personal tragedy. The larger tragedy came when Ochs sought but could never find the notes that could reach...
...activists who were students here ten years ago say they hope they left a heritage deeper than mere nostalgia for excitement. There are, they say, tactical lessons to be learned from that era. Ansara, for example, believes that SDS members among themselves wrongly downplayed the group's successes. "We denied our victory," he says. "We attacked our supporters for fear of being co-opted," he says. "I would love to do what we did then with the knowledge that we have now." Skip Griffin '70, then-president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Association of African and Afro-American Students, believes that...