Volume 15, Number 12 · January 7, 1971
Militant Nudes
By Elizabeth Hardwick
Gimme Shelter
Directed by David Maysles, by Albert Maysles, by Charlotte Zwerin
Ice
Directed by Robert Kramer
Dance the Eagle to Sleep
by Marge Piercy
Doubleday, 232 pp., $5.95
Trash
Produced by Andy Warhol, directed by Paul Morrissey
The Groupies
Directed by Ron Dorfman, by Peter Nevard
Troubling Images: 1.) Professor Theodor W. Adorno, at the University of Frankfurt, was, not long before his death, the audience for—or the object of—a striking bit of symbolic action. Adorno, a distinguished philosopher and the teacher of many leftist students, had come to be worried about student zeal for immediate action, about spontaneity, random rebellion, and, of course, the possibility of repressive actions by the government. And how was the sacred old father rebuked? A girl got up in the classroom and took off all her clothes.
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