Monthly Archives: June 2020

New York Poets Theatre

Posted on June 30, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The East End Theatre was an Off-Off-Broadway theater venue located at 85 East 4th Street. Existing in the 1960s, the theater was the creation and home from January 1, 1965 to December 31, 1965 of the New York Poets Theatre, an … Continue reading →

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Canned Heat (1967), Boogie with Canned Heat (1968), Living the Blues (1968)

Posted on June 29, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Canned Heat’s 1967 debut was released shortly after the band’s explosive introduction at the Monterey International Pop Festival. The quartet featured on Canned Heat includes the unique personnel of Alan ‘Blind Owl’ Wilson (guitar/vocals), Larry ‘The Mole’ Taylor (bass), Henry … Continue reading →

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Who Saw the Summer of Love?

Posted on June 29, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Jay and Ron Thelin outside The Psychedelic Shop, c. 1966. “San Francisco has always been a boomtown, and California has always called to people from far-flung parts of the country. The massive migration to California during the Summer of Love … Continue reading →

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Power Anywhere Where There’s People – Fred Hampton (1969)

Posted on June 27, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Power anywhere where there’s people. Power anywhere where there’s people. Let me give you an example of teaching people. Basically, the way they learn is observation and participation. You know a lot of us go around and joke ourselves and … Continue reading →

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The Complete Guide to Middle-earth – Robert Foster (1971)

Posted on June 26, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Complete Guide to Middle-earth is a reference book for the fictional universe of J.R.R. Tolkien‘s Middle-earth, compiled and edited by Robert Foster. Originally published in 1971 as A Guide to Middle-Earth, before the publication of The Silmarillion, the first … Continue reading →

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Cryptanalysis: Martin and Mitchell defection

Posted on June 25, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Close-up of the rotors in a Fialka cipher machine “In September 1960, two U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) cryptologists, William Hamilton Martin and Bernon F. Mitchell, defected to the Soviet Union. A secret 1963 NSA study said that: ‘Beyond any … Continue reading →

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The Spice-Box of Earth – Leonard Cohen (1961)

Posted on June 24, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Spice-Box of Earth has three main themes: love, poetry and Judaism, these topics are spread through out the whole book but we can see in the beginning that poetic concepts prevail, that in the middle are abundant love poems, … Continue reading →

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Fifty Years Ago, a Rag-Tag Group of Acid-Dropping Activists Tried to “Levitate” the Pentagon

Posted on June 23, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

The October 21, 1967 March on the Pentagon is remembered as one of the most significant political demonstrations of the era. “Late in the evening of January 14, 1967, a few of the people responsible for turning the seventh decade … Continue reading →

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Spanish Harlem Style, 1960

Posted on June 22, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Joe Cuba Sextet – Wanted Dead or Alive (1966) “In the summer of 1966, The Joe Cuba Sextet played a show in Asbury Park, a small seaside town in New Jersey known for its beachfront properties and country clubs. ‘It’s … Continue reading →

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“The Idiocy of War”

Posted on June 21, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Chinook helicopter C.J. Hughes – Aug. 2017: “Long, unpopular and ultimately a failure, the Vietnam War remained so controversial after it ended that many veterans were loath to discuss their combat experiences in the conflict for decades—even among close family … Continue reading →

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The Price of Peace Is Confusion – Renata Adler

Posted on June 20, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Anti-Vietnam War protestors march on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C., November 27, 1965. December 4, 1965: “At almost every major university in the country, mimeograph machines operate by night in cluttered student apartments, coffeehouses are filled by day with animated political … Continue reading →

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Robin Morgan

Posted on June 19, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Robin Morgan, Susan Brownmiller, and Gloria Steinem “Robin Morgan (born January 29, 1941) is an American poet, author, political theorist and activist, journalist, lecturer, and former child actor. Since the early 1960s she has been a key radical feminist member of … Continue reading →

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Herbert Danska – Right On! (1971)

Posted on June 18, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Vincent Canby – April 9, 1971: “… Most poets are preferably read alone, in decent tranquility. Some can be tolerated on the platforms of the Y.M.H.A.’s of the world —word celebrities greeting their fans. Usually, however, they are good gray … Continue reading →

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A Murder of Quality – John le Carré (1962)

Posted on June 17, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“A Murder of Quality is the second novel by John le Carré. It features George Smiley, the most famous of le Carré’s recurring characters, in his only book set outside the espionage community. Retired spy George Smiley is contacted by … Continue reading →

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Folk: Clouds – Joni Mitchell (1969), The Way I Feel – Gordon Lightfoot (1967), Tape from California – Phil Ochs (1968), Inside Dave Van Ronk (1964), Ramblin’ Boy – Tom Paxton (1964), Songs from a Room – Leonard Cohen (1969)

Posted on June 16, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Clouds is the second studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, released on May 1, 1969, by Reprise Records. After releasing her debut album to considerable exposure, Mitchell recorded the album at A&M Studios in Hollywood. She produced most of … Continue reading →

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Sit-in movement

Posted on June 15, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Student sit-in at Woolworth in Durham, North Carolina on February 10, 1960. “The sit-in movement, or student sit-in movement, was a wave of sit-ins that followed the Greensboro sit-ins on February 1, 1960 in North Carolina. The sit-in movement employed … Continue reading →

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We Bombed in New Haven – Joseph Heller (1967)

Posted on June 14, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“We Bombed in New Haven is a 1967 play by Joseph Heller. An anti-war black comedy, it is thematically linked in part to Heller’s famous novel Catch-22. The play opened on Broadway at the Ambassador Theatre on October 16, 1968, … Continue reading →

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The Last Times – William Burroughs, Claude Pelieu, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski (1967)

Posted on June 13, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

The Last Times I – “Day the Records Went Up” by William S. Burroughs, photograph of Herbert Huncke “The Last Times was a tabloid underground newspaper published in San Francisco in 1967 by beatnik poet and printer Charles Plymell. It … Continue reading →

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They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Sydney Pollack (1969)

Posted on June 12, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? is a 1969 American neo noir drama film directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York, Red Buttons, Bruce Dern, Bonnie Bedelia and Gig Young. The screenplay, adapted from Horace McCoy‘s 1935 … Continue reading →

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Experimental theatre

Posted on June 11, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Marat/Sade in Keith Fowler‘s inaugural production for the Virginia Museum Theater, October 1969 – design by Sandro La Ferla “Experimental theatre (also known as avant-garde theatre) began in Western theatre in the late 19th century with Alfred Jarry and his … Continue reading →

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Harry – Harry Nilsson (1969)

Posted on June 10, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Harry is the fourth studio album by Harry Nilsson, released August 1969 on RCA. It was his first album to get onto Billboard Magazine‘s Billboard 200 chart, remaining there for 15 weeks and reaching #120. Harry features jazz saxophonist Tom … Continue reading →

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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction – J. D. Salinger (1963)

Posted on June 9, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction is a single volume featuring two novellas by J. D. Salinger, which were previously published in The New Yorker: Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (1955) and Seymour: An Introduction … Continue reading →

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Noam Chomsky Explains the Best Way for Ordinary People to Make Change in the World, Even When It Seems Daunting

Posted on June 8, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The threat of widespread violence and unrest descends upon the country, thanks again to a collection of actors viciously opposed to civil rights, and in many cases, to the very existence of people who are different from them. They have … Continue reading →

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Women’s Brigade of Weather Underground

Posted on June 7, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Bernardine Dohrn “Initially called ‘The Proud Eagle Tribe,’ the communiqué from the Women’s Brigade of the Weather Underground pledged to ‘build a militant women’s movement that commits itself to the destruction of Amerikan imperialism’ and exploit ‘the man’s chauvinism’ as … Continue reading →

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What Would Michael Harrington Say?

Posted on June 6, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Well into his 80s, Socialist Party leader and six-time presidential candidate Norman Thomas remained in demand as a speaker at political gatherings and protest rallies. Troubled by arthritis and dependent on a cane, he would take a while to reach … Continue reading →

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Documentary Portraits of Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, William Carlos Williams, Anne Sexton & Other American Poets (1965)

Posted on June 5, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Allen Ginsberg “The annals of American history offer little in the way of documentarian-poets. But luckily for us today — and especially for those of us who enjoy American poetry of the mid-2oth century — one of the country’s few … Continue reading →

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‘Revolution’: The Story Behind The Beatles’ Song

Posted on June 4, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“… John Lennon explained in 1971, ‘Two songs and one abstract. I don’t know what you’d call it… musique concrète, loops and that, which was a picture of a revolution.’ With the exception of the two world wars, 1968 was … Continue reading →

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Nobody Knows My Name – James Baldwin (1961)

Posted on June 3, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Twelve years ago a young Negro writer named James Baldwin printed an impassioned essay. ‘Everybody’s Protest Novel,’ in which he attacked the kind of fiction from ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ to ‘Native Son,’ that had been written in America about the … Continue reading →

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The Politics Of Experience – R. D. Laing (1967)

Posted on June 3, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“When anything is ever written about Ronald Laing it often seems to be with a prefix of ‘controversial’ but for many people he was always thought to be talking absolute sense. Absolute common sense, in fact, if such a thing … Continue reading →

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From Hanoi to Hollywood: The Vietnam War in American Film (1990)

Posted on June 1, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Viet Nam Generation Journal & Newsletter – V4, N1-2 “In the last fifteen years hundreds of books have been published on the Viet Nam War. They range from memoirs, to novels, to comic books. There is, however, one area where … Continue reading →

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