The Hippies as Contrameritocracy  

Hippies seem to fascinate the mass media somewhat less than they did a year or two ago. Butthey have not disappeared. Older Hippies, who refused to convert to straight society, have moved from Haight Ashbury to Big Sur or other …



More Sorrow Than Pity  

The Sorrow and the Pity is a four-hour-long documentary film on life in France during the Nazi occupation. Its success seems to derive from two main sources: first, that it deals with such eternal themes as humiliation, powerlessness, and conflicting …



The Manson Murders: My-Lai of the Counter Culture  

Ed Sanders, veteran of the disbanded rock band The Fugs—hence aristocrat of the counter culture which had for popes Allen Ginsberg and the Beatles, for king and queen in exile Timothy Leary and Bernardine Dohrn, for princes of the royal …