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Follow the River. "The standard thing is to feel in the gut that middle-class values are all wrong," says a West Coast hippie. "Like the way America recognizes that Communism is all wrong." They feel "up tight" (tense and frightened) about many disparate things -from sex to the draft, college grades to thermonuclear war. Hallucinogenic drugs like marijuana and LSD, they believe, are the knives that cut those knots. Once unleashed, most hippies first become insatiable hedonists, smoking and eating whatever can turn them on in a hurry; making love, however and with whomever they can find (including "group...
...teacher, I find that Dickey's "profound sense of conjunction with the world" strikes the gut and mind of students, who take to Lowell's poetry as to a rainy...
...Young Americans for Freedom, a liber tarian laissez faire capitalist group. About 85 per cent of the membership, according to Davidson, serves merely as "shock troops." These are younger members, usually in the "long hair Bobby Dylan syndrome," who turn out for demonstrations but do not go beyond gut reactions to a systematic critique of society. Davidson classifies the remaining 15 per cent in two groups: the "super-intellectuals" and the "organizers." The intellectuals, mainly graduate students, dominate the discussions. The organizers are full-time, professional radicals...
...Senate poverty subcommittee, Kennedy was only echoing objections that have been raised frequently in recent years. Even so, as New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits, another member of Clark's subcommittee, pointed out, such scattershot attacks are bound to hearten those who want to gut the whole antipoverty program...
...lost even a great deal more faith than I in the gut and relevance of theatre -- no qualifying adjective like "Harvard" is the least bit necessary -- faith would still have been restored last night in beautiful abundance. Timothy S. Mayer's and Gunter Grass's The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising leads one to question not whether the stage relates to the world, but whether the world relates to the stage. Grass's play asks if artists can move about in the present, on the streets: Mayer's production answers in an unmistakeable affirmative...