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Secretary of State Philip Roth, Novelist Jerry Rubin, Yippie Bobby Scale, Black Panther Susan Sontag, Critic Gloria Steinem, Journalist Frank Stella, Artist Gay Talese, Journalist John Tunney, Congressman (Calif.) John Updike, Novelist Tom Wolfe, Journalist Charles Young, Chancellor, U.C.L.A. Ron Ziegler, Nixon Press Secretary
...ourselves, a disparate group that includes Eldridge Cleaver as well as Neil Armstrong, Tom Hayden as well as Ron Ziegler, Susan Sontag as well as Rod McKuen, Ralph Nader as well as Van Cliburn. Like any generation, we contain contradictions and exceptions, including those, particularly among the blacks, who want to burn and bury the system. But the revolutionaries among us, political or cultural, are a minority; reform, not revolution, is our aim. As a generation, we are distinguished by our lack of anger. Circled by fury, we are the unfurious; surrounded by passion, we are the dispassionate. Most...
...Tom Hayden, Revolutionary
PRINCIPATO by Tom McHale. 311 pages. Viking...
Where has Tom Wolfe been lately? It has been almost seven years since he burst into Esquire and the Herald Tribune with all those exclamation points and sound-affected sentences about custom cars in California and the Fifth Beatle and that time when Phil Spector made them stop the airplane and let him off because he knew-Spector knew!-it was going to crash. And it has been a year and a half since the publication-on the same day!!!-of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Pump House Gang, and that...