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What's going to happen Saturday and Sunday: we're not quite sure. As one of the Festival leaflets says, "The more of our energies that can be gathered in the next few days, the more far-out things can happen" later. For sure, there's going to be plenty of music-several bands are coming to play, and people should bring their own instruments. There will be teepees, air bubbles (Design School people are building a plastic airhouse), and other structures and displays. Local dance groups-including Lindsay Crouse's Dance Company of Cambridge-and theatre groups will...
...These are the ideas." an Earth person said yesterday. "Ideas are only so much talk until people do them. That is what the Festival is all about. The more our energies can be gathered together in the next few days, the more far-out things will happen. Everybody who wants to get into the idea is a member of Earth People...
...architect who designed it all is there, he'll tell you about how hard it was getting loans out of the local banks for a place that was supposed to be as "far-out" as the Western Front was planned to be. All of which goes to show how straight bankers can be at times...
...tone of such far-out rightists is both ominous and self-righteous, like that of the "skinheads," a similar group of disaffected youth in Great Britain. Good Americans, suggest NYA/WSL writings, are the workers and producers in society; intellectuals are not producers, but "softeners" of those solid qualities of strength and conquest at the envisioned heart of "Western Civilization." Those who undermine this culture, NYA/WSL spokesmen feel, must be defeated by any necessary means, including violence...
...challenge to traditional ideas about the proper role to be played by all men and women. In recent years, Americans have learned that a man need not be a Met pitcher or suburban Don Juan to be masculine: the most virile male might well be a choreographer or a far-out artist. Similarly, as more and more women become dissatisfied with their traditional roles, Americans may better understand that a female can hold a highly competitive job?or drive a truck?without being forced to sacrifice her sexuality or the satisfactions of child rearing. A nation that softens the long...