“You didn’t have to be there, as I was — at the 1968 Democratic Convention, August 26–29, in Chicago,” Walter Nicklin writes, “to feel the exhilarating terror of the tear gas or the billy-club-wielding policemen.” The meaning of “Chicago 1968” would ripple through the rest of the…
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What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. — T. S. Elliot
The rhyme that seemingly separate events create, when looked at together, alters the…
The poppoppop they hear is not celebratory fireworks.
