Word: rubins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quite possible to dislike Ronald Reagan and Jerry Rubin equally, to smoke grass and not feel we have to bomb banks, and to enjoy Hair but still go to church once in a while. We are neither boy scouts nor demonstrators, goody-goodies nor political prisoners. We are liberals and conservatives and reactionaries and radicals. Because we don't fit into the molds you have fashioned, we have somehow escaped notice in the mad rush to publicize youth today...
...finally gets his existential shit together when he meets Leonard II (Seymour Cassel), a fiery wild-eyed money burning Jerry Rubin style terrorist and gets into a back-up bomber action at a conspiracy trial. Williams aims at more than "realism" by portraying this final sequence as unsenstional, without crowds or reporters. The cerie setting he comes an apotheosis of the existential situation: the problem of the individual's depth-perception, the limits of the revolutionary's knowledge into his support and his justification. The People are no where to be seen, and an oppressive silence dominates...
Secretary of State Philip Roth, Novelist Jerry Rubin, Yippie Bobby Scale, Black Panther Susan Sontag, Critic Gloria Steinem, Journalist Frank Stella, Artist Gay Talese, Journalist John Tunney, Congressman (Calif.) John Updike, Novelist Tom Wolfe, Journalist Charles Young, Chancellor, U.C.L.A. Ron Ziegler, Nixon Press Secretary
Nominees range, in the words of Francis Burr, "from S.I. Hayakawa and Spiro Agnew on the right to Norman Mailer and Jerry Rubin on the left." For what job? Burr, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, is leading the search for a successor to Harvard President Nathan Pusey, who is stepping down next June. This gives Burr a year to find one. He has made a semipublic appeal for nominations, and there is even a telephone answering service on campus that records the favorite choice of any interested party...
Looting with Scruples. Writes Jerry Rubin: "All money represents theft. To steal from the rich is a sacred and religious act. To take what you need is an act of self-love, self-liberation. While looting, a man to his own self is true." To many radicals, that truth is self-evident indeed. Some of those who take jobs in department stores or markets steal what they can, and either resell it at a minimum price underground or donate it to communes. Some who work in restaurants or drugstores let their friends in to eat or rip what they need...