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...black militants zero in on selected targets in the white community and then retreat to the ghetto. Bombings of police stations by radicals, white or black, have already become a big-city fact of life. Violence is unpredictable: Chicago's blacks did not revolt when police killed Black Panther Fred Hampton, but a minor grocery-store dispute set off last week's Miami rioting. A random incident can either pass almost unnoticed or set off a riot that endures for days...
Secretary of State Philip Roth, Novelist Jerry Rubin, Yippie Bobby Scale, Black Panther Susan Sontag, Critic Gloria Steinem, Journalist Frank Stella, Artist Gay Talese, Journalist John Tunney, Congressman (Calif.) John Updike, Novelist Tom Wolfe, Journalist Charles Young, Chancellor, U.C.L.A. Ron Ziegler, Nixon Press Secretary
Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther...
Other individuals join in the game, selling newspapers, bootleg records, pots of brown rice, stolen cameras, and dope. Some of the newspapers are very good. The Old Mole, published weekly by a group of Cambridge radicals, is probably the best. You can also buy The Black Panther, the Militant, and Broadside Free Press. The brown rice is pretty good also. Buying cameras and dope is probably not a good idea...
Wolfe notes not only the rise of the in-vite-a-Panther-to-cocktails phase of Radical Chic, but what is probably its fall. The party at Lenny's was followed by a scathing editorial in the New York Times. Slander would be preferable to Wolfe's compassion for the traumatized Bernsteins. "It was unbelievable," he writes of Lenny's reaction to the post-party furor. "Cultivated people, intellectuals, were characterizing him as 'a masochist' and-and this was the really cruel part-as 'the David Susskind of American Music...