ᴊᴏᴀɴ ᴅɪᴅɪᴏɴ ᴏɴ ᴊᴏᴀɴ ʙᴀᴇᴢ: "ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴋɪssɪɴɢ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ sᴛᴏᴘs"

                86 - 96

date essay in 1966, not published until 1968

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         New Journalism

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Tom Wolfe - The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

developed in 60s-70s

report stories with subjectivity

used narrative storytelling and literary devices

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           Life and Work

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born in 1934, attended UC Berkeley

several essay collections, 6 book length essays, 5 novels,

several screenplays

won Prix de Paris essay competition by Vogue, work

there for 7 years

first novel - River Run, 1963

first essay collection - Slouching Towards Bethelehem

essays published in The Saturday Evening Post, Vogue,

Holiday

title essay offers profile of Haight-Ashbury district in San

Francisco, notorious hippie mecca

Where the Kissing Never Stops - 1966, The New York Times,

under title "Just Folks at a School for Non-Violence"

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               Analysis

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conflicting attitudes about counterculture, pedagogy involved

in the institute, business aspect of music business

Joan Baez - folksinger, released 5 albums by then, 3 gold,

cover of Time, introduce Bob Dylan to large audience

Monterey County Courthouse - Gerald Petkuss and wife 

serve as parodies of those who fear the left

argue the institute will lower property values

Baez is composed and unflappable, says she has more money

invested in property

1959 Newport Folk Festival - 13,000 people, arrive in Cadillac

hearse, launched into public eye

folk revival in 50-60s - protest against overproduced top 40

reaction against escapist music of Elvis Presley

political, union organizing songs, Dust Bowl ballads

Baez refused to leave during bomb drill in school, declare

she would not pay 60% of taxes to IRS to support war

Ira Sandperl - head of Institute, local fame as clerk in Palo

Alto, bookstore specializing in political books

Baez was owner of adobe house in Carmel Valley, once

a lab for poison oak remedy, small shotgun shell factory

15 applicants over age of 18

works by Mahatma Gandhi, Henry David Thoreau, Aldous

Huxley, Marshall McLuhan

Didion quote Baez's concert notes towards end of essay

Baez help initiate American chapter of Amnesty International,

worked on civil rights, anti war, LGBT rights, enviornmental

movements