Monthly Archives: October 2022

The Essential Philip K. Dick

Posted on October 30, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The K stands for ‘Kindred.’ It was a family name, but if there’s anyone who can forgive a fanciful imputation of significance, it is Philip K. Dick. How lovely that a poet of alienation would come into existence bearing that … Continue reading →

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Guy Debord: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of a Brilliant Crank

Posted on October 28, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“This year will mark the 20th anniversary of the death of Guy Debord (1931-1994), the filmmaker, revolutionary, writer, and consummate drinker who is most often identified as the secretary and guiding figure of the Situationist International (S.I.), as well as … Continue reading →

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Dissent

Posted on October 27, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Dissent is an American Left intellectual magazine edited by Natasha Lewis and Timothy Shenk and founded in 1954. The magazine is published by the University of Pennsylvania Press on behalf of the Foundation for the Study of Independent Social Ideas. … Continue reading →

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How New Orleans’ Creole Musicians Forged the Fight for Civil Rights

Posted on October 26, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“While New Orleans’ Congo Square is acknowledged as the heart and birthplace of American music, New Orleans’ unique Creole musical community was the engine for what became America’s early civil rights movement. During French and Spanish rule, a combination of … Continue reading →

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The Moment Sylvia Plath Found Her Genius

Posted on October 25, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The voluminous critical conversation about Sylvia Plath has tended to orbit a few topics: her suicide, of course, and the ways mental illness and madness perhaps predicted her death and marked her poetry; the blazing ferocity of her posthumous masterpiece … Continue reading →

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On The Road: Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation’s Style

Posted on October 24, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Take someone from 70 years ago, drop them on a city street today. Would their style fit in seamlessly with those surrounding them on the sidewalk? Styles change. The best dressed style icons of almost any era—no matter how respected—wouldn’t … Continue reading →

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Nat Hentoff (June 10, 1925 – January 7, 2017)

Posted on October 23, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Nat Hentoff with the clarinetist Edmond Hall in 1948 at the Savoy, a club in Boston. “Nat Hentoff, an author, journalist, jazz critic and civil libertarian who called himself a troublemaker and proved it with a shelf of books and … Continue reading →

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Samizdat Is Russia’ Underground Press

Posted on October 22, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Samizdat copies “Censorship existed even be fore literature, say the Russians. And, we may add, censorship being older, literature has to be craftier. Hence, the new and remarkably viable underground press in the Soviet Union called samizdat. The word is … Continue reading →

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The Guggenheim

Posted on October 21, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

The Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867 – 1969), who developed the concept of ‘organic architecture’, that a building should develop out of its surroundings. The Guggenheim’s concrete rings allow light into the building to display the exhibits … Continue reading →

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Gandalf

Posted on October 20, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Gandalf is one of many protagonist in J. R. R. Tolkien‘s novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. He is a wizard, one of the Istari order, and the leader of the Fellowship of the Ring. Tolkien took … Continue reading →

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