The Big Party

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Fifth Estate # 80, May 29-June 11, 1969

I. Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish’s original monkey dinner was held at 19 Gramercy Park in New York …

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Notes on a Greek festival

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Fifth Estate # 58, July 18-31, 1968

It is ironic that the recent “Freedom Festival” in Detroit was celebrated primarily in Detroit’s Grecian …

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Violence, Guns

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Fifth Estate # 57, July 4-18, 1968

I A few days ago a friend of mine asked me to amortize my obligations to …

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Groovin’

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Fifth Estate # 56, June 19-July 1, 1968

I. “Grooving,” which we’ve been doing since birth, has recently taken on some formal definition as …

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The Death of Randolph Scott, Gabby Hayes and the Canadian Pacific Railway

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Fifth Estate # 55, June 4-18, 1968

I. “Of the heavy losses we have sustain e d”, author-sentimentalist Charles Beaumont once said, “none …

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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

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Fifth Estate # 63, October 3-16, 1968

a review of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. 1968. …

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Books

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Fifth Estate # 30, May 15-31, 1967

a review of Where Is Vietnam? a Collection of Poems—an Anthology of new work by 87 …

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The Disarmament of the Bored

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Fifth Estate # 30, May 15-31, 1967

I. If we are truly hungry we will eat anything, anywhere. In Aushwitz, philosophers killed each …

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“The electric revolution”

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Fifth Estate # 36, August 15-31, 1967

I Marshall McLuhan, better known as the Ombudsman of the Hipsters, hates the twentieth century. Yet, …

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Hippies—the new aristocracy?

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Fifth Estate # 35, August 1-15, 1967

“A lot of us have been smokin’ reefers and layin’ broads in the bushes at Belle …

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