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me.” Gitlin, The Sixties, 274.

176 Havana-bound flights to record the Mexicans on board. Some of these lists of Cubans and American Havana-bound passengers can be found in newly released Mexican government archives in Lecumberri.

176 “likes and trusts its government.” Ali, 1968, 24.

177 “both mobilized and relaxed.” Gitlin, The Sixties, 275.


CHAPTER 11: April Motherfuckers

178 “slightly irrelevant in his presence.” Hayden, Reunion, 275.

179 “changing clothes or engaging in sterile debate.” Ibid.

181 The Bride Got Farblundjet, Bill Graham and Robert Greenfield, Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock and Out (New York: Doubleday, 1992), 227.

181 70 percent of the professional concert activities, The New York Times, January 15, 1968.

181 These trends continued in 1968. Gitlin, The Sixties, 120.

181 transmits sound waves into nerve impulses. The New York Times, August 20, 1968.

182 “age of instant communication.” Life, June 28, 1968.

182 “music today,” said Townshend. Ibid., June 2, 1968.

182 “drummer who can really keep time.” Time, August 30, 1968.

183 “have a good time.” Ibid., August 9, 1968.

184 “The Know-Nothing Bohemians.” Partisan Review (spring 1958).

184 “Beautify America, Get a Haircut.” Life, May 31, 1968.

185 “Nobody wants a hippie for President,” The New York Times, March 16, 1968.

186 “everything except how to be a man.” Ibid., October 22, 1968.

186 double between 1968 and 1985. Ibid., April 7, 1968.

187 “provides the image for the kids.” Ibid., January 11, 1968.

187 interrogate someone while under the influence of LSD. Isserman and Kazan, America Divided, 156. Also see Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain, Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The C.I.A., the Sixties and Beyond (New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1992).

187 Nasser and Cuba’s Fidel Castro, Lee and Shlain, Acid Dreams, 35.

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.

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