Word: max
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Slavery. The result was a list of wage demands. Max consented, but in a Steppenwolf mood decided to sell the paper. Enter Timothy Leary and a rich friend who came to town to talk about buying the Barb for $250,000 and turning it into a psychedelic-trip sheet for the acidhead community. Oh, no!, exclaimed the tribe, which wanted to make the paper into a kind of revolutionary New York Times. Leary and friend then became "honest brokers," suggesting that Max sell the paper to the tribe- for $1,000 a week for 140 weeks, plus interest...
Such logic carried the day, and the tribe began rounding up a syndicate of staffers and their families. Negotiations went smoothly until Max insisted on default clauses that would make the purchasers liable should the paper fail for any reason, from staff negligence to earthquakes to sheriff's raids. The tribe agreed to the first liability, but balked at taking responsibility for acts of God or Ronald Reagan. There the matter lay until one morning last week when the tribe arrived at the office to discover that Max had made off with the subscription lists, some ad copy...
...Bourgeoise Family. Max, of course, feels more aggressed against than aggressing and claims that the staff have been blinded to the revolution by visions of their own gain. "I can't tell you how many times I've fed these people," he says. "For four years they've been coming to my house and my wife has been feeding them. She sends food to the office all the time. It's been like a family. Now they've got this bourgeois idea-they want to make the best possible deal...
...deals are off and the tribe is preparing a Barb on Strike edition of the paper and thinking about starting their own weekly, called, naturally, Tribe. Max is trying to put out an edition of Barb on his own, which is about as likely as levitating the Pentagon with chants...
...moral of the story, as Max should have known after studying the contradictions of capitalism, is that any journalist denied access to a pencil sharpener will surely find another way to get the lead...