Dreams & Everyday Life

by Rosemont, Penelope

• ISBN13: 9780882862842
• ISBN10: 0882862847
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-01
• Publisher: Charles H Kerr Pub Co

Summary

Nonfiction. Memoir. Nationwide campus surveys show that students today regard the 1960s as the most attractive, creative, and effective decade of the past century. Above all, the Sixties introduced an inspiring new radicalism. Penelope Rosemont's lively first person account captures the true excitement, intellectual passion, high humor, and diversity of the era. Among the very few Americans welcomed by Andre Breton into the Surrealist Group in Paris early in 1966, Penelope and her husband Franklin co-organized the Surrealist Group in Chicago later that year. They collaborated on surrealist publications in Paris, Prague, Amsterdam and many other places, as well as in several of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights anthologies. In Chicago, Paris, New York and London, they also visited old-time Wobblies, surrealists, anarchists, socialists and situationists.

Table of Contents

Chicago, Wednesday, September 30, 1964	p. 1
On the shores of Fox Lake	p. 10
Roosevelt University: Political Hotbed	p. 14
Solidarity Bookshop & Armitage Avenue	p. 18
The Roosevelt University Wobblies	p. 26
The Old Time Wobblies & the IWW Hall	p. 29
Drop Out and Join the Revolution!	p. 37
Our Journal, the Rebel Worker	p. 39
At the Point of Production	p. 43
Surrealism & Marxism	p. 47
New York, December 1965	p. 48
Our Adventures at Heathrow Airport	p. 50
Christmas in Paris!	p. 52
Absolute Divergence	p. 58
New Year's Eve, 1966	p. 62
The Surrealist Cafe, Le Promenade de Venus	p. 72
The Situation of Surrealism in the U.S.	p. 84
Enjoying the Riviera	p. 87
Diogenes and the Lantern	p. 92
Jose Corti and the Hopi way	p. 95
Fire-eaters on the Left Bank	p. 101
Guy Debord & the Situationists	p. 105
Man Ray and the Musee de Cluny	p. 109
A Visit to 42 rue Fontaine	p. 114
Easter Sunday, 1966	p. 119
Rebel Worker in London	p. 128
May Day, 1966	p. 129
New York, Return to USA	p. 134
Larrabee Street and the Millennium of June 6, 1966	p. 137
Urban Renewal	p. 139
The Forecast Is Hot	p. 145
Don't Fight the Bosses' War	p. 152
SDS to the Rescue & the Great Snow	p. 154
New York Be-In & Anti-War Demonstration	p. 156
Au Grand Jour on Larrabee Street	p. 159
The High Sheriff of Hell	p. 161
Maxwell Street	p. 166
Liberation Press at the SDS National Office, 1968	p. 173
Surrealist Insurrection, a Wall poster	p. 178
A Powerful and growing Organization of Young People	p. 182
Barbara's Bookstore, the Seed and Freedom of the Press	p. 193
May '68 in Chicago, Paris and Prague	p. 196
The Democratic National Convention in Chicago	p. 203
The Gallery Bugs Bunny	p. 211
SDS in Fall 1968	p. 216
At the Coliseum	p. 223
More Bad Jobs	p. 228
Surrealism & Radical America	p. 231
Hollywood on Argyle Street	p. 232
Psychotic and Other Friends	p. 236
Arsenal-A Surrealist Journal in the U.S.	p. 238
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