Jerry was ok, but he was humorless. He got all his good pranks from Stewart Alpert.
Carrol Cox wrote:
> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> >
> > To repeat, radical conversions from the Left to the Right (a la David
> > Horowitz) have been few, though the few have commanded our
> > disproportionate attention. Most individuals have either moved from
> > one strand of the Left to another or (perhaps more commonly) ceased
> > to be politically active,
>
> Very frequently in the case of such radical conversions as Horowitz's
> closer examination reveals that the subject had been an asshole when
> he/she was a leftist. Horowitz is one example. Rubin was another. (In the
> summer of 1968 I met someone who had been in jail with Rubin and who even
> then had utter contempt for him.) Or like Koestler they had never been
> more than superficially left. Horowitz began his connection with the
> Panthers at the exact moment when other radicals in the Bay Area were
> beginning to back off. (The Horowitz case has been discussed at length on
> the sixties list.)
> (Horowitz did edit a useful book of esays on imperialism before he finked
> out.)
>
> Carrol
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