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...ghost of Vietnam," comes the reply...
...curing hemorrhoids. In an interview with David Frost that aired this Sunday, Robertson defended the time he prayed on his television show to divert the course of Hurricane Gloria, adding of the storm's subsequent shift toward New York, "I think it was divine intervention." Bringing the Holy Ghost in on the cure for hemorrhoids seems, on the face of it, to disqualify the practitioner of such "solutions" from sitting with the National Security Council in judgment of more complicated matters...
Then, finally, older material popped up. The band launched into the old Police tune "One World," which has become an anthem of sorts. But musically, the song took on some newer textures than on its Ghost in the Machine version. The song started off in reggae, changing keys as the song progressed. Then the music accelerated to breakneck speed, slowing down only for the "they may seem a million miles away" coda. It was a radical departure from the tune's previous arrangements...
...most moving sections of the book, Gitlin compares the disillusionment, hopelessness and general atomization of many former activists in the Seventies with the Ghost Dance of the defeated Sioux in the 1890s, who believed that if they practiced a particular ritual purification and circle dance, the spirits would intervene and drive away the otherwise all-powerful white conquerors. Hence, Gitlin argues, the encounter culture of the Seventies, when many old radicals drifted unhappily from guru and method to method, seeking the lost solidarity and exhilarating sense of purpose of their Movement days...
...Sixties' failures, limits, disasters, America's political and cultural space would probably not have opened up as much as it did without the movement's divine delirium." Gitlin's greatest achievement in this monumental book, perhaps, is that he is able to avoid the elegiac fatalism of the Ghost Dance in his analysis of the complex impact that this seemingly most self-contained, all or nothing of decades has had on contemporary society...