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Stanisław Lem: A Holocaust Survivor’s Hardboiled Science Fiction

Posted on January 18, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“In ‘His Master’s Voice,’ a 1968 sci-fi novel by the Polish writer Stanisław Lem, a team of scientists and scholars convened by the American government try to decipher a neutrino signal from outer space. They manage to translate a fragment … Continue reading →

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Running in sneakers, the Judson Dance Theater

Posted on January 17, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Yvonne Rainer, We Shall Run, 1963 performed March 7, 1965 at the Wadsworth Atheneum “Twelve performers stand still onstage. A minute passes, then another. You sit there watching, waiting for the dancing to begin. After what feels like an interminable … Continue reading →

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Totem Press, Yugen – Imamu Amiri Baraka

Posted on January 16, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Charles Olson, Projective Verse (1959). Cover by Matsumi Kanemitsu. “On the same small offset press, and as an arm of his magazine Yugen, LeRoi Jones’s Totem Press imprint published thirteen pamphlets, beginning with Diane di Prima’s This Kind of Bird … Continue reading →

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Topaz – Alfred Hitchcock (1969)

Posted on January 13, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“It’s perfectly apparent from its opening sequence that no one except Alfred Hitchcock, the wise, round, supremely confident storyteller, is in charge of ‘Topaz,’ the film that opened yesterday at the Cinerama Theater. ‘Topaz,’ the code name for a Russian … Continue reading →

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On Revolution – Hannah Arendt (1963)

Posted on January 12, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“On Revolution is a 1963 book by political theorist Hannah Arendt. Arendt presents a comparison of two of the main revolutions of the eighteenth century, the American and French Revolutions. Twelve years after the publication of her The Origins of … Continue reading →

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The 1968 Kerner Commission Report Still Echoes Across America

Posted on January 10, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Then Illinois governor Otto Kerner, left, and New York mayor John Lindsay report on the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders in October 1967. “A young African-American is killed by a white police officer in full view of others. Angry … Continue reading →

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“Sonny’s Blues” – James Baldwin (1957)

Posted on January 10, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“‘Sonny’s Blues’ is a 1957 short story written by James Baldwin, originally published in Partisan Review. The story contains the recollections of a black algebra teacher in 1950s Harlem as he reacts to his brother Sonny’s drug addiction, arrest, and … Continue reading →

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The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left-Handed Poems – Michael Ondaatje (1970)

Posted on January 6, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left-Handed Poems is a verse novel by Michael Ondaatje, published in 1970. It chronicles and interprets important events in the life of William Bonney, aka Billy the Kid, and his conflict with Sheriff … Continue reading →

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Middle-earth

Posted on January 1, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Middle-earth is the fictional setting of much of the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien‘s fantasy. The term is equivalent to the Miðgarðr of Norse mythology and Middangeard in Old English works, including Beowulf. Middle-earth is the human-inhabited world, that … Continue reading →

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The Price of Power: Kissinger, Nixon, and Chile – Seymour M. Hersh

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

“… Admiral [Rembrandt] Robinson was the liaison officer between the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the National Security Council, and his office was a sensitive one: the White House’s most highly classified documents, including intelligence materials, routinely flowed through it. … Continue reading →

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