Monthly Archives: October 2021

Free Schools – Jonathan Kozol (1972)

Posted on October 31, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Free Schools is a pragmatic and polemical sequel to Jonathan Kozol’s National Book Award‐winning Death at an Early Age. In the latter, Kozol described his brief career as an innovative teacher in the Boston Public Schools and his confrontations with … Continue reading →

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Poetry Readings/Reading Poetry in the San Francisco Bay Area; Poems in Street, Coffeehouse, and Print—The Mid-1960s; The Language in Trouble—The Late 1960s, etc.

Posted on October 30, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Beatniks on parade 1958. “Part I. In 1958, in Richmond, across the bay from San Francisco, I was in the twelfth grade. In Mrs. Weatherby’s English class, a history of literature, the mandatory play was Hamlet. We had come to … Continue reading →

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My Three Powerfully Effective Commandments by Ingmar Bergman (Summer 1970 Issue)

Posted on October 29, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Experience should be gained before one reaches forty, so a wise man has said. After forty it is permissible for one to comment. I venture to say that the reverse might apply in my case. No one under forty was … Continue reading →

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The Manifesto of the 121: French Intellectuals and Decolonization

Posted on October 28, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“As I learned this morning from my Verso Radical Diary, The Manifesto of the 121 was signed on this date in 1960: ‘The Manifesto of the 121 (Full title: Déclaration sur le droit à l’insoumission dans la guerre d’Algérie or … Continue reading →

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What Biden is keeping secret in the JFK files

Posted on October 26, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Part of a file from the CIA released by the National Archives in 2017, dated Oct. 10, 1963, details “a reliable and sensitive source in Mexico” report of Lee Harvey Oswald’s contact with the Soviet Union embassy in Mexico City. … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Loop by Michael Peters

Posted on October 25, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Brian Eno – Decay and Delay, a 1968 score involving three tape recorders “This page tries to summarize the steps in the history of music which led to the distinct style and technology of Looping Music. Looping Music today typically … Continue reading →

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Deafman Glance – Robert Wilson (1971)

Posted on October 25, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“When Robert Wilson’s work  first appeared internationally it was generally seen from a single and limited viewpoint—as a return to the image. Wilson was understood as a proponent of two-dimensional theater, of theater to be looked at only. This was … Continue reading →

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He’s a poet and the FBI know it: how John Giorno’s Dial-a-Poem alarmed the Feds

Posted on October 23, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

‘A poignant expression of the need and loneliness of people’ … John Giorno’s Dial-A-Poem in 1970. “In 1968, the poet and visual artist John Giorno was on the telephone when he was hit with an idea. It came to him … Continue reading →

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The Mimic Men – V. S. Naipaul (1967)

Posted on October 22, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Inevitably, a simple synopsis of V. S. Naipaul’s new novel must, by creating the impression of alternatively rolling and thundering action, wholly distort its nature and quality. The scene shifts from rooming-house London to the Caribbean island of ‘Isabella,’ a … Continue reading →

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Frantz Fanon: The Brightness of Metal

Posted on October 21, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

After Frantz Fanon died in 1961, his body was carried across the border from Tunisia to be buried in Algeria. “Frantz Fanon was born on the Caribbean island of Martinique on 25 July 1925. He died in the United States, … Continue reading →

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War and Peace – Sergei Bondarchuk (1967)

Posted on October 20, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The movies now give us an ‘epic’ nearly every week of the year. Digital technology, corporate budgets and the public’s own current thirst for shallow escapism have paved the way for visions both ludicrous and wondrous. … But what do … Continue reading →

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A Schuyler of urgent concern

Posted on October 20, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

James Schuyler in Calais, VT, late 1960s. Photo by Joe Brainard. “Just a little more than twenty years after his death, James Schuyler seems to be doing well, thank you. The bulk of his work is in print (his collected … Continue reading →

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Hanging Out With Joan Didion: What I Learned About Writing From an American Master

Posted on October 17, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“I arranged to meet Joan Didion in 1971 after reading Slouching Toward Bethlehem. I found her essays hypnotic, in a voice I’d never heard, expressing ideas I knew were true but couldn’t have articulated. I was reporting for several magazines … Continue reading →

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A Hard Day’s Night – The Beatles (1964)

Posted on October 16, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“A Hard Day’s Night is a 1964 musical comedy film directed by Richard Lester and starring the English rock band The Beatles—John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr—during the height of Beatlemania. is a 1964 musical comedy film … Continue reading →

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United States: Essays, 1952-1992 – Gore Vidal

Posted on October 15, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“United States collects 114 essays written by Gore Vidal over the last four decades. Despite the reproduction of Jasper Johns’s forty-eight-star flag on the dust jacket, less than half of them are about politics. The rest describe books, places, and … Continue reading →

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Students for a Democratic Society

Posted on October 14, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a national student activist organization in the United States during the 1960s, and was one of the principal representations of the New Left. Disdaining permanent leaders, hierarchical relationships and parliamentary procedure, the founders … Continue reading →

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Stax ’68: A Memphis Story

Posted on October 13, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“When it comes to soul, Stax Records owned the ’60s. Classic records from Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Rufus & Carla Thomas, and a legion of others helped transform what was once known as rhythm ‘n’ blues into rugged, emotionally bare “soul” music. … Continue reading →

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The Hospital Occupation That Changed Public Health Care

Posted on October 12, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“On July 14, 1970, members of the Young Lords occupied Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx — known locally as the ‘Butcher Shop.’ A group of activists, many of them in their late teens and 20s, barricaded themselves inside the … Continue reading →

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Computer art

Posted on October 11, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Desmond Paul Henry, Picture by Drawing Machine 1, c. 1962 “Computer art is any art in which computers play a role in production or display of the artwork. Such art can be an image, sound, animation, video, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, video … Continue reading →

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PBS: “Muhammad Ali” Four-part documentary series

Posted on October 10, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Like many aspects of Muhammad Ali’s life, this photo of him defeating Sonny Liston in 1965 transcended boxing. A new documentary assesses Ali’s impact inside the ring and out. “There it was, legendary frame by legendary frame, frozen in time … Continue reading →

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All Poets Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960s – Daniel Kane

Posted on October 9, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“This landmark book, together with its accompanying CD, captures the heady excitement of the vibrant, irreverent poetry scene of New York’s Lower East Side in the 1960s. Drawing from personal interviews with many of the participants, from unpublished letters, and … Continue reading →

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‘The Village Detective’ decays into the avant-garde

Posted on October 8, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“It was probably inevitable, baked into the chemical essence of film, that the medium’s own ephemerality would become a metaphor for time, aging, and death. Filmed images outlive the people in them, but time’s army eventually catches up, and what … Continue reading →

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Paul Goodman Changed My Life

Posted on October 7, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“‘Paul Goodman Changed My Life’ pays tribute to a man — poet, teacher, social critic, guru without portfolio — whose name was once a household word and whose books were talismans of intellectual seriousness and social concern. His current obscurity … Continue reading →

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Albert Camus on the Responsibility of the Artist: To “Create Dangerously” (1957)

Posted on October 6, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Literary statements about the nature and purpose of art constitute a genre unto themselves, the ars poetica, an antique form going back at least as far as Roman poet Horace. The 19th century poles of the debate are sometimes represented … Continue reading →

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The Tangier Diaries, 1962-1979 – John Hopkins

Posted on October 6, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“A writer’s perfunctory yet absorbing diary of his life in Tangiers. Lifelong ÇmigrÇ and novelist Hopkins (The Flight of the Pelican, 1984 etc.), fresh out of Princeton and convinced that Wall Street and the professions were not for him, jaunted … Continue reading →

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Casey Hayden

Posted on October 4, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Casey Hayden at Freedom Summer orientation, July 10, 1964, Herbert Randall Freedom Summer Photographs, USM “Sandra Cason ‘Casey’ Hayden (born October 31, 1937), was an American radical student activist and civil rights worker in the 1960s. Recognized for her defense … Continue reading →

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Joe Brainard – I Remember

Posted on October 3, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“John Ashbery said he was nice—’nice as a person and nice as an artist.’ I think it’s fair to say that we don’t have a rich critical vocabulary for nice artists. (And how many are there?) Yet, everyone agrees that … Continue reading →

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Folk baroque

Posted on October 2, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Folk baroque or baroque guitar, and also sometimes called chamber folk, is a distinctive and influential guitar fingerstyle developed in Britain in the 1960s, which combined elements of American folk, blues, jazz and ragtime with British folk music to produce … Continue reading →

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JACOBIN No.29 / Spring 2018: 1968

Posted on October 1, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Between us we can change this rotten society. Now, put on your coat and make for the nearest cinema. Look at their deadly love-making on the screen. Isn’t it better in real life? Make up your mind to learn to … Continue reading →

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