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os 7 — - NY 100-161445 ‘ ~ \ "snterpreter said 'No, they mean KARL MARX', They spoke of - LENIN and I thought they meant JOHN LENNON, My interpreter said 'No, they mean the guy withow} a first name'. It was all getting very confusing, tut what's to te expected when Chromosome Damage meets the DINOSAURS. One thing I will © stete, however, before I even testify, is that 'I am not now or have I ever been a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee'." Pyhy LA r "Tne New York Times" in its Decenber 28, 1968 aa issue in section seven, page three, carried a book review 4 by JACK NEWFIELD on the book “Revolution for the Hell of It" by FREE (ABBIE HOFFMAN) which stated in part as follows: “ABBIE HOFFMAN is a charming combinatbn of Ernie Kovacs, Artaud, and Prince Kropotkin. He is a put-on artist, an acid head (over 70 trips), a mass-media guerrilla, and now he has anthologized his hallucinations into a boox. many gurus are Andy Warhol and Marshall McLuhan. What ABBIE has done is put between formless covers some LSD fantasies; diarylike accounts of the Marck on the Pentagon and the Battle of Daleyland; pictures of him and his infamous friends; clippings; random quotations from gurus like George Sorel, Lewis Carroll, and Martin Buber; a letter to Stokely Carmichael; and a self-interview a la Mailer. eSV—~reurr “Well, sort of a book, since two of the suthor's 57 ¢ a "The scirit of the book is foreshadowed in the two epigrams ABBIE invokes at the start of the opening chapter. One is from the international revoluntionary Che Guevara, and the other is from a television commercial for a cleansing powder. ABBIE, you must understand, is a Marxist-Lennonist- Harpo Marx and John Lennon. “The author was once a charter member of the Kev Left. He worked in the 1962 peace campaign for the Senate of H. Stuart Hughes, and he paid his dues with SNCC in Mississippi and Georgia. Fut now ABBIE is a founder and lescer of the Yippics, and he mocks SDS and Ramparts no less than he mocks Herverd end The New York Times. He writes: