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Abbie Hoffman — Part 5
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C. Wright State University
Fairborn, Ohio
March 17, 1
The "Dayton Journal Herald", a De
morning newspaper on page 25 of the March 1
printed an article entitled, “Yippie Unleader Trades
which stated in part as follows:
"apbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin's ‘Robin’ in the Dynamic Duo
of Yippiedom, alighted on the Wright State campus yesterday,
found a patch of grass, eyeballed the thin crowd of well-fed
collegians around him and concluded gloomly ‘There won't be
any trouble here.'
"Hoffman appeared as part of the school's ‘Artists and
Lecturers! series, whereby he was to trade pearls of wisdom for
to get back to New
pearls of great price or, at least, enough
York City. It was an astute trade, but then Hoffman 16 wise in
the ways of the street.
"He has been in the forefront of numerous Yippie
A record of prestigious
(Youth International Party) demonstrations.
Washington being the status jails these
arrests (Chicago and
days) has placed Hoffman in the peculiar position of being a
national leader in a theoretically leaderless group.
"For an ‘undisclosed amount,’ the bushy-beaned advocate
of anarchy-according-to-the-Marx-brothers took a bludgeon-like
wit to society's foibles, presumably in search of some sofe-white-
under-belly laughs.
"Somehow, the targets seemed too obvious-like drive-in
mortuaries-and one couldn't help but feel Will Rogers did it
better more than 30 years ago.
“Some free samples:
“on the Walker report of violence in Chicago: ‘The
reports keep getting better and the situation Keeps getting worse.’
on, Ohio, daily
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