Word: rubins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dylan had been singing for it. Muhammad Ali had given speeches for it. Selwyn Raab, a New York Times reporter, had pushed for it in a series of crusading investigative articles. Finally, last week it came about: the nine-year-old murder conviction of Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter, 38, and also that of his friend John Artis, 30, was unanimously thrown out by the seven justices of the New Jersey Supreme Court. The "defendants' right to a fair trial was substantially prejudiced," said Justice Mark Sullivan, because the prosecution had failed to disclose evidence about the reliability...
...apparently means that he can write wherever and whenever he wants, as long as it's about something vaguely cultural. Yes, vaguely; his first few articles have been about, on the one hand, Norman Mailer and Irving Howe and starving New York writers, but on the other hand Jerry Rubin and autopsies. He writes long and with a good deal of occasionally abused stylistic freedom, and he has one Cause and one Unfortunate Fixation...
...writing itself is usually a pleasure. It's done in long, tangled, eclectic sentences; the thoughts come to him in bursts of various length, each one striving for profundity and literary value. This sometimes produces streams of semi-meaningless maxims (of Rubin, "He is Jimmy Connors deciding to be Chrissie Evert, as solemn as an oil rig;" of Canada, "a New Zealand on rubber wheels." Leonard must have some idea what these things mean). It also sometimes produces really good and perceptive lines (writers "will descend into pulpdom, where the libidinal cathexes are so simpleminded it seems that anyone with...
...Chicago Seven? Well, they were seven men accused, under a somewhat dubious conspiracy statute, of plotting to cross state lines to disrupt the 1968 Democratic Convention. They stirred up demonstrators and helped lead street protests against the Chicago police that often turned violent. One of their leaders was Jerry Rubin, field marshal of the yippies. Remember the yippies? Well, they were the Youth International Party...
...years ago a New York Times editorial described the trial of "the Chicago Seven" as "the shame of American justice"-and many Americans agreed. Last week Rubin, 37, now promoting his newest book, Growing (Up) at 37, confessed in a guest column in the Chicago Sun-Times, courtesy of Columnist Bob Greene, that he and his co-defendants were "guilty as hell. Guilty as charged." Explained Rubin: "Let's face it. We wanted disruption. We planned it." But, added Rubin, " 'guilty' does not mean 'wrong...