Word: rubins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Irving admires girl jockeys, however. "Barbara Jo Rubin has as much heart as men have. In New Orleans, she took the stake. She outslicked Robert L. Boyd, the slick himself. She let him go out there, took him off the pace at the eighth pole, crowded him at the sixteenth, and beat him at the wire...
MIDDLE-CLASS America will recognize their older children in Paul Cowan much more readily than in Jerry Rubin or Mark Rudd, partly because it wishes to ignore hostility. For temperamentally, Cowan is not an angry young man. He is a kind, gentle man who has been fucked over by a system that promised it would listen to him. He came to radicalism with more sadness than fury. A possible reason for his mellowness (aside from the love of his private life, a small but vital part of the book) is that his Peace Corps years in Ecuador, 1966-7, were...
...Rubin has said that his revolution is not only a political one. He speaks of a revolution of life styles and refers to the Chicago trial as a struggle between life and death. Yet a revolution of life style is perhaps the most difficult revolution to make. It requires a well structured philosophy and a true dropping out to make it work. People like Richard Alpert or commune livers are making a revolution of life style...
...SADDEST thing, then, about Rubin is that he doesn't "Do It." If he believed in what he says he wouldn't run around the plastic society playing the role of bad guy. Bad guys are just as much a part of society as anyone else. He should be off in some corner of the country with his people making a new life, a better life which we could then adopt...
Like James Kunen's Strawberry Statement, Do It is a disjointed collection of half digested thoughts. But unlike Kunen, Rubin expresses none of the doubts about the right course of action or the reasons behind the radicalization of students today. He says that students are the oppressed class, yet students, especially here, are the very ones who are being trained to lead American society. Their predecessors at Harvard are the ones against whom the revolution is being made. Rubin does not explain how students are repressed (except to say that they are forced to wear suits, again a theatrical example...