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Hace 6 días · A new generation of Yippies still maintains a presence on Bleecker Street, but their impact on American politics has been muted in recent years. Founding member Abbie Hoffman, perhaps disillusioned by the apathy of 1980s American youth, committed suicide in 1989.
17 de may. de 2024 · On this date 55 years ago — May 17, 1969 — the British rock band The Who released what it called a “rock opera”: “Tommy,” the story of a boy traumatized as a youth and suffering with a...
Hace 1 día · Jerry had grown up in Cincinnati, in a Reform synagogue. (Likewise, Abbie Hoffman; his memorial service was in his childhood synagogue in Worcester, Massachusetts.) In 1970, when my colleague was ...
22 de may. de 2024 · But sometimes his historical or geographic distance does lead to some misjudgments – as when he describes Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin as major leaders of the opposition to America’s war in Vietnam when they were in fact mostly media figures with a great public presence, but only a tiny following.
2 de may. de 2024 · Nine Variations on Pete Townshend and Abbie Hoffman. 1. On August 17, 1969, Abbie Hoffman stood stageside at Woodstock. He was high but not at all happy. The festival, it seemed to him, had failed to fulfill its promise as a political event, and had instead devolved into a burlesque of commerce and self-congratulatory entertainment.
1 de may. de 2024 · Hoffman, a political activist who made headlines as a defendant in the “Chicago Seven” trial in 1969, also co-founded the “Yippies” — short for the Youth International Party. Webb, who studied law at Loyola, went on to be U.S. attorney for northern Illinois and is now one of the nation’s top trial lawyers, still headquartered in Chicago.
15 de may. de 2024 · Abby (Janeane Garofalo) hosts a popular radio show about pets. When Brian (Ben Chaplin) calls in to ask about his quirky Great Dane, the two surprisingly hit it off. Brian pushes for a date with Abby, who is shy and a bit insecure, so she talks her ditzy neighbor Noelle (Uma Thurman) into taking her place.
