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"God, I was sitting there and all of a sudden I started screaming for Harvard," he recalled. "Then this professor sitting two rows behind me comes crashing down with his umbrella."
Meanwhile, like other facets of the counterculture, the new diets are filtering into the suburbs via the teenagers. Rows of unfamiliar foodstuffs are appearing in middle-class cupboards: brown rice by the bucketful, as well as packages of aduki, granola, gomasio, ginseng and miso. Worried mothers are on the phone...
Up from the orchestra floats a vaguely medieval sound: thick, sonorous and brassy. The dancers parade in solemn sequence across the softly lit stage, looking rather like harlequins in leotards. When they reach the footlights, the mood is suddenly jolted by a more familiar noise: the harsh twang of amplified...
And yet, as they sat in the main room of the club ("The Body Shop") amid racing pennants and rows of hubcaps, there was little exuberance-hardly more than a steady murmur rising and falling to the sounds of Eddie Barden's quartet.
Baking Cakes. Silberman's ideal of what schools should be doing is hard to fault: he is convinced that they can help "create and maintain a humane society" by making their first priority the production of "sensitive, autonomous, thinking, humane individuals." In a glowing chapter, he reports that his...