Word: re
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There was a good deal of speculation about what kind of people had showed up and how they would react under stress. Spiegel was not pleased with the hippies and was afraid that they would make a joke out of the confrontation. "The authorities really know what they're doing,' 'Spiegel explained. "And they know that it's easier to control a crowd if there are a lot of small bands. All they have to do is put the Fugs on a truck and then make sure that they can control where the truck goes-the hippies will follow them...
Charging towards the steps of the Pentagon, many marchers managed to bypass the Army's first line of defense and ran into a secondary wall of MP's. Piling up behind the MP's more troops moved in to re-inforce the original line; U.S. Marshals wearing white helmets, business suits and night sticks patrolled the lines. There was a little pushing on both sides, a few minor skirmishes, but nothing very serious. Most of the protestors were satisfied with the ground they had gained-what was later to be christened the "Free Pentagon" -and were convinced that the violence...
When Larry Foreman refuses to sell out. he sings about how we're going to get together and rock the cradle...
Corporations buy off the newspapers and the universities and the arts need private money to sustain themselves and the church needs those contributions and the people who have the money are screwing those who don't and you're convinced. Now all you need is direction for the fight and Blitzstein doesn't provide that. He just makes you angry...
President Prexy sounds just like Pusey and Kirk and Johnson. The newspaper editor talks just like the established liberal newspapers we're all getting sick of reading. And the cops and the courts are the same cops and courts who are producing the circuses in Chicago and Cambridge...