Word: rubins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want to talk about politics, I prefer to talk about premature ejaculation," Jerry Rubin, former Yippie leader and political activist, said yesterday...
...Rubin, who was in Cambridge to promote his new book, said he believes a "psychic transformation" of the individual must precede political change. "I hope be a consciousness-sharer, not a leader," he said, "acting as a bridge between the political radical left and the spiritual consciousness movement...
Dressed in a flowered shirt and striped bell-bottoms, Rubin looks very different from the bearded, long-haired Yippie who took the stand as a defendant in the 1968 "Chicago Seven" trials. He says he is now bitter about the hostility he feels from his former followers...
...Rubin said his new approach to social change starts with individual growth. "In the '60s, we were totally out there; in the '70s, people need to take a breather, to turn inside for a while," he said...
...surprising that Dylan should feel a certain kinship with Rubin. His own sense of justice is removed from the world of judges and legislation--Dylan bringing his fury to bear on a victim as in Like a Rolling Stone, must feel a bit like a flurry of Rubin's punches. When Dylan sings in the chorus "One time he could've been/The Champion of the World," he's talking about more than a boxing title; he's suggesting a state in which relationships between people are informed by an intuitive sense of justice, rather than by a systematic but easily...