1968 (70 page)

188
“found God and discovered the secret of the Universe.”
Timothy Leary,
Flashbacks: An Autobiography
(Los Angeles: Tarcher, 1983), 159.

188
chromosome damage.
Ibid., 154.

188
an acid-doused sugar cube.
Charles Kaiser,
1968 in America: Music, Politics, Chaos, Counterculture, and the Shaping of a Generation
(New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988), 206.

188
“Beethoven coming to the supermarket.”
Raskin,
For the Hell of It,
110.

189
“an erotic politician.”
David Allyn,
Make Love, Not War—The Sexual Revolution: An Unfettered History
(Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 2000), 131.

189
“That’s what you came for, isn’t it.”
Ibid. Quoted from James Riordan and Jerry Prochinicky,
Break on Through: The Life and Death of Jim Morrison
(New York: William Morrow & Co., 1991), 186.

189
“it’s supposed to make you fuck.”
Isserman and Kazin,
America Divided,
161. Quoted from Godfrey Hodgson,
America in Our Time
(New York: Random House, 1976), 341.

190
“the Golden Age of fucking,”
Raskin,
For the Hell of It,
83.

190
Anne Bancroft and Dustin Hoffman in bed together. The New York Times,
January 9, 1968.

191
“shook their heads in amusement.”
Ibid., February 18, 1968.

191
“public interest in sex on the college campus is insatiable.” Life,
May 30, 1968.

192
“150 years of American civilization.”
Ed Sanders,
Shards of God: A Novel of the Yippies
(New York: Grove Press, 1970), introduction.

198
“the correct grammatical ‘whom.’ ”
Gitlin,
The Sixties,
307.

201
with rice and beans.
Tom Hayden, correspondence with author, June 2003.

201
“the torment of their campus generation.”
Tom Hayden,
Rebel: A Personal History of the 1960s
(Los Angeles: Red Hen Press, 2003), 253.

201
“turning point of history?”
Hayden,
Reunion,
275.

202
underground high school newspapers.
Diane Divoky,
Saturday Review,
February 15, 1969.

203
with its own steering committee, The New York Times,
April 27, 1968.

203
“no such justification.”
Ibid., April 26, 1968.

204
to be abandoned by the end of April. Life,
April 19, 1968.

207
lay about the grass unattended. The Nation,
June 10, 1968.

207
“that have long festered on campus.” Time,
May 3, 1968.

208
“My son, the revolutionary.”
Ibid., May 31, 1968.

208
president had been forced out by the students.
Ibid., August 30, 1968.

208
“ ‘Create two, three, many Columbias’ ” Ramparts,
June 15, 1968.

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209
“I shall die sometime.” Life,
January 19, 1968.

210
“France is bored.” Le Monde,
March 15, 1968.

210
“British their financial and economic crisis.” Paris Match,
March 23, 1968.

211
American companies, with $14 billion.
Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber,
The American Challenge
(New York: Atheneum, 1968), 3.

211
“for it defines our future.”
Ibid., 32.

212
“Che Guevara poster on his wall.” Life,
May 17, 1968.

214
“to shut myself up with grief.”
Anthony Hartley,
Gaullism: The Rise and Fall of a Political Movement
(New York: Outbridge & Dienstfrey, 1971), 155.

214
erecting makeshift barricades.
Hervé Hamon and Patrick Rotman,
Génération,
vol. 1:
Les Années de rêve
(Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1987), 43–44.

215
“it was not over.”
Alain Geismar, interviewed June 2002.

216
“the consumer society that eats itself.”
J. R. Tournoux,
Le Mois de Mai du général
(Paris: Librairie Plon, 1969), 23.

216
did not begin broadcasting until 1957.
Gérard Filoche,
68–98 Histoire sans fin
(Paris: Flammarion, 1998), 10.

216
“He understands the medium better than anyone else.” Life,
May 17, 1968.

217
was again observed.
Tournoux,
Le Mois de Mai du général,
14.

217
rendered incapable of thinking.
Dark Star, ed.,
Beneath the Paving Stones: Situationists and the Beach, May 1968
(Edinburgh: Ak Press, 2001), 9–10.

217
half as many degrees
Tournoux,
Le Mois de Mai du général,
48–51, 87.

218
“who had grown too old.”
Alain Geismar, interviewed June 2002.

219
“worthy of Hitler’s youth minister.”
Harmon and Rotman,
Génération,
vol. 1, 401.

219
in the old German style of obedience.
André Harris and Alain Sédouy,
Juif & Français
(Paris: Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle, 1979), 189–91.

221
“would have been it.”
Daniel Cohn-Bendit, interviewed March 2002.

222
“ ‘we think you are rotten.’ ”
Andrew Feenberg and Jim Freedman,
When Poetry Ruled the Streets: The French May Events of 1968
(Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001), 8.

222
the CRS, to Paris.
Tournoux,
Le Mois de Mai du général,
25.

223
“who are waiting for the government to protect them.”
Ibid., 30.

223
Georges Marchais wrote. L’Humanité,
May 3, 1968.

224
“right moment and the right place.”
Daniel Cohn-Bendit, interviewed March 2003.

224
“pictures of each other on television.”
Ibid.

225
“I would say ‘I don’t know.’”
Ibid.

226
“no planning.”
François Cerutti, interviewed June 2002.

226
He was a bureaucrat, not a policeman.
Maurice Grimaud,
En Mai fais ce qu’il te plaît
(Paris: Éditions Stock, 1977), 21.

226
“astonished the police officials.”
Ibid., 18.

226
“. . . covered with blood.” Le Monde,
May 12–13, 1968.

226
“The way it did with the Black Panthers.”
Daniel Cohn-Bendit, interviewed March 2003.

227
flyers had been intended as a joke,
Tournoux,
Le Mois de Mai du général,
33–34.

227
“Everyone was talking.”
Eleanor Bakhtadze, interviewed June 2002.

227
“freedom of today began in ’68.”
Radith Gersmar, interviewed June 2002.

229
The Jewish Museum’s show
,
The New York Times,
December 15, 1968.

229
“I was the media’s darling.”
Daniel Cohn-Bendit, interviewed March 2003.

230
“more importance than it deserves.”
Tournoux,
Le Mois de Mai du général,
94–95.

232
“That’s just the way it is.”
Ibid., 246.

233
“we are going to do today.”
Harmon and Rotman,
Génération,
vol. 1, 458.

234
the entire city of Berkeley. The New York Times,
July 1, 1968.

235
“do it again in ’68.”
Alain Krivine, interviewed June 2002.

235
“I no longer had any hold over my own government.”
Hartley,
Gaullism,
288.

235
“a position to give everyone advice.” Le Monde,
June 27, 1968.

236
readers to fool them!
Daniel Cohn-Bendit,
Le Gauchisme: Remède à la maladie sénile du communisme
(Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1968), 11.

236
“reconstruct myself.”
Daniel Cohn-Bendit, interviewed March 2002.

237
are always going to the university.
Harmon and Rotman,
Génération,
vol. 1, 420.

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 The Place to Be

238
would not have been allowed to win.
Harry Schwartz,
Prague’s 200 Days: The Struggle for Democracy in Czechoslovakia
(London: Pall Mall Press, 1969), 88.

239
“for my family’s needs and my taste.”
Dubcek,
Hope Dies Last,
151.

239
“solving important problems.”
Schwartz,
Prague’s 200 Days,
90.

239
thought were unacceptable responses. Time,
March 22, 1968.

239
“too late, to put the breaks on?” Paris Match,
March 23, 1968.

240
“custom of male kissing.”
Dubcek,
Hope Dies Last,
101.

240
“harm they are causing me?”
Mlynár
Nightfrost in Prague,
103.

241
they staged one that lasted for hours.
Schwartz,
Prague’s 200 Days,
120–22.

241
several innocent people was about to be revealed.
Ibid., 123.

242
“and that is democracy on recall.” The New York Times,
May 6, 1968.

243
I have no apartment
, Schwartz,
Prague’s 200 Days,
144.

244
they had been forewarned. The New York Times,
May 11, 1987.

245
“both official hits of the time.”
Berman,
A Tale of Two Utopias,
230.

246
Brubeck “with a touch of bossa nova.” The New York Times,
May 28, 1968.

246
Clive Barnes’s review.
Ibid., May 6, 1968.

246
psychedelic rock band posters.
Berman,
A Tale of Two Utopias,
233.

247
5 percent said they wanted capitalism.
Jaroslaw A. Piekalkiewicz,
Public Opinion Polling in Czechoslovakia, 1968–69: Results and Analysis of Surveys Conducted During the Dubcek Era
(New York: Praeger Publishers, 1972), 4.

247
7 percent said they were dissatisfied.
Ibid., 34.

248
to argue against invasion.
Jiri Valenta,
Soviet Intervention in Czecho-slovakia 1968: Anatomy of a Decision
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991), 66–70.

249
lists of people to be arrested.
Schwartz,
Prague’s 200 Days,
178.

250
although sometimes a bribe would help. The New York Times,
May 5, 1968.

250
“the right place to be this summer.”
Ibid., August 12, 1968.

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 Places Not to Be

255
“political rights of Negroes.”
Bernard Diedrerich and Al Burt,
Papa Doc and the Tonton Macoutes
(Port-au-Prince: Éditions Henri Deschamps, 1986; original McGraw-Hill, 1969), 383.

255
killed or captured by Haitian army troops.
Ibid., 380.

255
sentenced to death. The New York Times,
August 8, 1968.

255
more dangerous than Vietnam. The New York Times Magazine,
May 5, 1968.

255
Nixon would make the same point, Life,
November 22, 1968.

256
within five years. The New York Times,
July 24, 1968.

256
should give it all back. Paris Match,
March 30, 1968.

256
Originally, such raids by Palestinians
, Oren,
Six Days of War,
24.

257
lost all connection to the outside world. Life,
July 12, 1968.

257
It was reported that the Nigerian force
,
The New York Times,
May 27, 1968.

259
white ants for protein. Time,
August 2, 1968.

259
a new one dug for the next day. The New York Times,
August 1, 1968.

260
“other airlines will join in.”
Ibid., August 14, 1968.

260
on the European market. Time,
August 9, 1968.

260
“Negroes are massacred . . .” Life,
July 12, 1968.

260
“some starving white people to feed.” The New York Times,
September 30, 1968.

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 The Craft of Dull Politics

261
John Updike said,
Norman Mailer,
Miami and the Siege of Chicago,
15.

261
“Yippie! was really in trouble.”
Abbie Hoffman (“Free”),
Revolution for the Hell of It
(New York: Dial Press, 1968), 104.

261
not given to admiring
, Hayden,
Rebel,
244.

262
as a frightening bad omen.
Thomas,
Robert Kennedy: His Life and Times,
346.

262
expected it to be himself.
Ibid., 276.

262
told historian Arthur Schlesinger
, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.,
Robert Kennedy and His Times
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978), 895.

262
Romain Gary
,
Le Figaro,
June 6, 1968.

265
“leaderless and impotent.” The New York Times,
March 22, 1968.

266
“on that particular statement.”
Ibid., May 22, 1968.

266
By June a petition drive
, Ibid., June 2, 1968.

266
“giving aid and comfort to the enemy.” Reader’s Digest,
April 1968.

267
“dullest convention anyone could remember.”
Mailer,
Miami and the Siege of Chicago,
15.

268
news of Martin Luther King’s assassination. The New York Times,
October 6, 1968.

268
“cruel and unusual punishment.”
Jack Gould,
The New York Times,
August 9, 1968.

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 Phantom Fuzz Down by the Stockyards

270
$35 million had been spent.
Mike Royko,
Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago
(New York: Plume, 1988; original 1971), 161.