America in the Eye of the Telescope Site
In Transit LOS ANGELES — At the long rented tables inside the door of Kennedy-for-President headquarters, three middle-aged ladies wearing Kennedy hats were selling bumper stickers and posters. It...
View ArticleKusama: ‘Miss Naked Happening’
The Way of All Flesh: Stripping for Inaction I have seen the future — and it doesn’t work. According to a telegram which arrived at the office late Friday afternoon, “JAPANESE SCULPTRESS KUSAMA WILL...
View ArticleThe Election-High Is a Bad Trip
The Press of Freedom: The Election-High Is a Bad Trip Many of my friends expected to be in concentration camps by the end of summer. Some expected to be gunned down dramatically in the streets of...
View ArticleThe Grand Central Riot: Yippies Meet the Man
Inside A Yip-In All the brass was watching. Chief Inspector Sanford Garelik, shielded by a cluster of Tactical Patrol Force heavies, leaned against the wall in the 42nd Street entrance to Grand Central...
View ArticleAndy Warhol: Alive & Well
“I Thought Everyone Was Kidding” Andy Warhol is alive and well. Last Thursday, accompanied by the inevitable coterie of business associates and superstars, Warhol went out on the town. It was the...
View ArticleRemarks on Timothy Leary’s Politics of Ecstasy
‘Christmas in Earth’ By the late ’40s of this memory Century the people I knew best and loved the most had already broken through the crust of old Reason & were dowsing for some Supreme Reality,...
View ArticleThe Threshold and the Jolt of Pain
Personal Testament Like most boys in their teens, I wondered once in a while how I would take torture. Badly, I thought. Later I thought not so badly, as I saw myself under the pressures of danger or...
View ArticleReport From Prague: Viewing a Disaster
What follows is a simple eyewitness account of two days in Prague under Soviet occupation. This is a report, not an analysis or a commentary. It is because I know that every “Cold Warrior” welcomes...
View ArticleThe New Politics: Leaders or Guerrillas
In the last 10 days I have read about 20 sophisticated articles analyzing the results of the 1968 elections. Most of these pieces of punditry contained the same two assumptions — which I believe are...
View ArticleJohn Lennon and Paul McCartney in Transit
Scenes THERE I STOOD, next to Paul McCartney and John Lennon — calm, but without a thing to say. I wasn’t intimidated, but more amazed I had managed to get through an endless skein of Beatlemanic...
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