Word: tillinghast
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...Whenever you began a quarter, you could be sure that it wasn't going to end I mean, it wasn't going to end in a normal way," the poet recalls Riots and protesting interrupted the academic routine and once--when the university's faculty went on strike--Tillinghast held classes in his apartment...
...incidents which Tillinghast remembers most vividly occurred in the vacant lot since celebrated as "People's Park." When Berkeley announced plans to turn the land into a parking lot, local inhabitants mobilized in protest. Bearing flowers, trees and grass to plant, they converged, on the plot and many refused to leave on the day bulldozing and demolition began...
...police reacted to it with something like overkill," Tillinghast says. After dispersing the crowd, the police began tearing up the park...
...time when it was "ordinary to get tear-gassed," the poet recalls. "Great crowds of people would just gather and have these big confrontstations with police in the street." Although Tillinghast was wrapped up in the cultural revolution that he and others envisioned, his love of travel interceded...
...took a 10-month leave of absence from Berkeley and travelled overland from Istanbul to India, crossing the border on the final leg of his trip one day before the Indo-Pakistani war began. "You could still go to Iran then, and you could still go to Afghanistan." Tillinghast recalls wistfully. When New Delhi had a blackout, he rode around in a taxi, looking into the darkened streets...