Sixties Going On Seventies

340 Pages·1996·13.706 MB·English

by  Nora Sayre

Sixties 6oing on Seventies
A Volume in the Series
PERSPECTIVES ON THE SIXTIES
Edited by Barbara L. Tischler
SERIES EDITORIAL BOARD
Clayborne Carson, Stanford University
William Chafe, Duke University
Morris Dickstein, Queens College, CUNY
Jose Limon, University of Texas, Austin
Elaine May, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Sixties
Ooing On Seventies
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sayre, Nora.
Sixties going on seventies / Nora Sayre,
p. cm. — (Perspectives on the sixties)
ISBN 0-8135-2274-9 (alk. paper)
1. United States—Politics and government—1945-1989. 2. United
States—Civilization—1945- I. Title. II. Series.
E839.4.S29 1996
973.9—dc20 95-42680 CIP
British Cataloging-in-Publication information available
Copyright © 1973 by Nora Sayre
Afterword copyright © 1974 by Nora Sayre
Revised edition copyright © 1996 by Nora Sayre
All rights reserved. Published by Rutgers University Press,
New Brunswick, Newjersey.
Manufactured in the United States of America.
Originally published 1973 by Arbor House Publishing Co.
“Marching,” “Black Panthers and White Radicals,” and “Shoot¬
ing Revolution” were first published in Esquire. “Five Years After
Kent State” was published in Ms. “The John Birch Society” and
“Strike and Lulls: Harvard” are reprinted by permission of The
Village Voice, Copyright by The Village Voice, Inc., 1971, 1973.
The Progressive, the New Statesman and London Magazine are
thanked for permission to reprint material that first appeared in
their pages, often in a different form.
This Edition is for
Toni Willison Martha Eluggins Malcolm Willison

Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
PART I EXERCISES IN UPHEAVAL
Democratic Death-In: Chicago, August 1968 11
Marching, 1969-1972 18
Conversations in Watts, January 1968 31
Black Panthers and White Radicals: Oakland, July 1969 39
Black Panthers and White Radicals: Philadelphia,
September 1970 46
Shooting Revolution, January 1970 56
Voices from the GI Movement, February 1971 68
Frank Rizzo and Philadelphia, June 1971 82
The John Birch Society, July 1971 96
Strikes and Lulls: Harvard, July 1972 104
Strikes and Lulls: Yale, May 1970 and June 1972 116
Five Years After Kent State, September 1975 133
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PART II UTOPIA AND INFERNO
Boarding in Heaven, April 1968 147
Wages of Wrath, May 1970 156
PART III NEW YORK FOR NATIVES
New York for Natives, August 1969 165
Blackout, November 1965 171
The Cult of Ayn Rand, January 1966 173
Seductive Banks, February 1966 177
Paperback Gothics, October 1966 180
Requiem for the World-Journal-Tribune, May 1967 183
League for Spiritual Discovery, December 1966 187
College for Policemen, March 1967 191
Go With the Flow, July-August 1967 201
Memories of the East Village, April 1969 205
A Riot Averted, October 1967 208
New Yorkers and George Wallace, October 1968 213
Harlem on Many Minds, February 1969 218
Christmas Crises in Manhattan, December 1965 225
Adult Games, December 1968 226
Reels of California: A New Yorker’s View, 1969-1972 229
PARI IV THEATER AND A COUPLE OF MOVIES
Off-Off-Broadway, June 1967 237
Further Off Broadway, March 1968 242
Howling for Help, July 1968 245