Word: scherr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scherr, 53, is a lawyer who looks a lot like Allen Ginsberg and lays claim to being a Marxist. He owned the Steppenwolf bar in Berkeley for seven years but, so the story goes, the toi let in the men's room broke down one day in 1965, and rather than lay out the money to fix it, Max simply sold the place and started an underground newspaper, the Berkeley Barb. Max, it seems, has this thing about money; he refuses to spend it, on himself or anyone else. Featuring sex, rebellion and kinky ads, the Barb grew into...
...student clinic, where he sometimes treats toes that have been dislocated when their owners leaped from barricades, Schoenfeld answered so many unhip hippies' questions that he eventually became convinced that something ought to be done. He half-jokingly suggested to Berkeley Barb Editor Max Scherr that his paper should print a medical column. "You write it," Scherr replied, and in March 1967 Schoenfeld...
...Hesse's preoccupation with Eastern mysticism and his soul-racked characters, who suffer from that now common malaise of the under-30 generation, the identity crisis. Not far from the Berkeley campus, a favorite hangout is a beer joint called Steppenwolf, so named by its original owner (Max Scherr) because that novel symbolizes the loneliness of the intellectual. At Harvard, where Hesse's books sell better than any of his contemporaries except Faulkner, Senior Joel Kramer says: "Reading him is a gut, emotional experience." Adds Harvard Graduate Student Mark Granovetter: "Well, he was the first hippie, wasn...
...Berkeley (Calif.) Barb is an eight-to twelve-page weekly, less than a year old, with a circulation of 7,500. Says the Barb's bearded editor, Max Scherr, 50, a local bohemian of long standing: "I'm interested in all the little movements that are divergent from the mainstream of the culture." Scherr also admits-reluctantly-that sex and radical anti-Viet Nam articles are what sell his paper. Radical is the word. Wrote a Barb columnist known only as "The Roving Rat Fink," after President Johnson's recent speech in Omaha: "Never before...