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...Editor's Note: Larry L. King, 41, is a Harper's magazine contributing editor, widely published freelance writer, novelist, and grandfather. In 1969-70, Mr. King was one of a group of journalists who did time at Harvard under the auspices of the Nieman Foundation. His 8,000-word account of the year, "Blowing My Mind at Harvard," appears in the current Harper's. For the CRIMSON, Mr. King has added to his memoirs by filling in the details of the visits he arranged here for writers Norman Mailer and William Styron. The following is the concluding part of this...
...grandfatherly Nieman sat there in the Faculty Club among hisses and boos, seeing in one room those tragic emotional and cultural divisions polarizing the races all across America. He had long been familiar with poisons boiling in white working-class hearts and among so-called Middle Americans; he knew of acid chemicals fizzing in a high percentage of blacks. At Harvard, he had learned, precious little rapport existed between black and white students. Black students to stand alone, to do their own thing: there was something absolutely tribal about it. White radicals thought blacks narrow in their political or sociological...
...carried on like a Baptist fanatic. Rescue squads and cops came clanging and banging stretchers and doors and asking embarrassing questions; some of the larger Cambridge-Harvard names were attracted to the scene. It was one hell of a time to be dizzy and euphoric and crocked. The grandfatherly Nieman sat all night at a Cambridge hospital where Styron was under cautionary observations, himself all hung over and pale and sleepless, thinking that he had Mailer, bless...
...class, desiring more stimulation than that provided by pipe-sucking Deans or publishing executives who sang praise to themselves, staged our own rebellion. As good revolutionaries should, we built on the smaller gains of our predecessors: thus the Nieman Foundation bore the expense of our underground seminars, even if or Curator continued to find reasons excluding his personal attendance...
...Boston University, and Harvard professors, including Wald, Galbraith, and Riesman. We hosted correspondents fresh from Vietnam, blacks representing all degrees of militancy, students of varied ideological stripes, urbanologists, magazine editors, former ambassadors, and a gaggle of ex-aides to Presidents. These provided the most valuable experiences of the Nieman season and revealed, I think, what the program might become in the hands of men capable of wielding larger hammers...