Word: rubins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most obvious manifestations of the new romanticism-nudity, casual sex, obscenity, absurd dress, confrontation tactics. These were, of course, intended to shock. In describing some of his wilder contemporaries, Françoise René de Châteaubriand might have been talking about Abbie Hoffman or Jerry Rubin when they confronted a House Un-American Activities subcommittee: "They rig themselves up as comic sketches, as grotesques, as caricatures. Some of them wear frightful mustaches; one would suppose that they are going forth to conquer the world." The heroes upon whom the romantics model themselves, and the causes they support...
...cultural genocide," complained Yippie Leader Jerry Rubin, "an assault on the Yippie culture by the capitalist imperialist culture." Until last September, Rubin sported a magnificently wild mane that looked as if he had teased it with an Electrolux. But when he entered California's Santa Rita Rehabilitation Center to do 45 days on charges of being a public nuisance, the warders sheared his hair down to a respectably Middle American two inches...
...After Rubin emerged from jail looking like a plucked chicken, his Yippie colleague Abbie Hoffman sent out the word from Chicago, where both are defendants in the conspiracy trial: "Help Jerry make a wig." Before long, whole bags of hair tumbled in from across the country; at least a dozen bundles arrive daily now. With all of that, Rubin could doubtless fashion a fascinating brindle mop. Instead, he has bought himself a ghastly bouffant woman's wig to wear until his own hair returns to suitably radical length. Surely, going to the barricades in drag is going to give...
...conclusion of the march, Jerry Rubin, one of the defendants in the Chicago Eight conspiracy trial, addressed the marchers in a rally at Copley Square, not far from one of the draft boards damaged early Saturday morning...
...rally Rubin urged the demonstrators to go to Washington on the fifteenth and "surround the Justice Department" in order to stop the conspiracy trial in Chicago. Predicting that, if the trial continues, it will result in a verdict of guilty. Rubin said, "I have no faith... in the American judicial system. This trial will only be stopped in Washington on the fifteenth or in the streets...