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...Three times a day people would toot their horn or bang something or just yell,” he said. “Given the climate of intimidation, people didn’t want to march in the street and risk getting tear-gassed...
...takeover wasn’t my first radical experience. The summer before college I had worked on Eugene McCarthy’s presidential campaign and I got tear-gassed at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. I think that event radicalized me. Still, I had come to college expecting to go into Boston to demonstrate. I had never expected anything to happen at Harvard...
...think the 1970 event was bigger. After the National Guard shot those kids at Kent State, there was a riot that started in Boston. A crowd of anarchists had gathered—hundreds of them—and marched down Mass. Ave., setting fire to things and exploding tear gas. At this point, I repelled all of it—I thought, “This isn’t the way to effect change. This is anarchy! We can’t survive like this, we need civil and social order.” I cut myself off from...
...riots, I was in the Phoenix Club, on Mt. Auburn Street. The anarchists from Boston were marching down Mt. Auburn Street. We were having a black-tie dinner at the time of the demonstration. The protesters broke the windows on the first level of the club and threw tear gas. I felt like I was in the Winter Palace. We went upstairs and stood out on the balcony—in black tie—and stayed there until it all cleared...
...unselfconscious, often hyperbolic prose of a typical teenager. "...Ricky Ricky Ricky Wasserman, that exquisitely handsome boy," reads one description. Elsewhere she imagines seeing Monroe in twenty years when he will visit her and talk to her husband and give her "funny secret looks from across the table...and a tear will force its way from eye..." Thanks to Minnie's interest in drawing, "Diary" also has the unusual theme of showing a budding comix artist. Robert Crumb even makes a personal appearance...