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Abbie Hoffman — Part 16
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“Youth movement superstar Abbie Hoffman visited
New Jersey yesterday to announce - for the second time in
the Garden State - that he is hanging up his headband,
cutting his hair and leaving the campus lecture circuit.
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"Hoffman, speaking to a crowd of over 1,500 at
Drew University in Madison, said, 'I don't have any answers
anymore, That's why I'm giving up speaking at schools,
cutting my hair and going away.',
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"He vowed that Drew would go down in history for
hosting his last appearance, but recalled a visit last spring
to Fairleigh Dickinson University where he also had announced
his retirement.
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he asked, ‘That was my last appearance too!'
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"Hoffman resplendent in counterculture haute
couture - sweatshirt and bell-bottom jeans - spiced his
14-hour extemporaneous speech with the usual bathroom
variety of four-letter Anglo-Saxonisms and barnyard
the podium, included the predictable stock, diatribes against
the enemies of the left: .the government, the military, the
Establishment.
"Hoffman's remarks, delivered as he bounced around
"But he also had a few surprises, some of which
may have caused his largely-sympathetic listenerd to squirm
@& bit in their seats.
"Registering to vote he said, is a 'super idea.'
He admitted, ‘Perhaps it is possible to have a socialist
revolution that supports the needs and interests of the people
and do it peacefully through electoral change.'
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