Ann_Li wrote: > > It's not like he did what Bruce Franklin did at > Stanford, or is it?
What is your version of what Bruce did at Stanford? He and I almost succeeded in triggering a riot in the lobby of the Americana Hotel during the 1968 MLA convention. We had been to the Chomsky speech over in the Hilton, & when the stupid questions began we left and strolled back to the Americana. Louis Kampf and two grad students had been arrested the preceding day for trespassing (holding up signs at the entrance to the hotel). Bruce and I lacking anything better to do started chanting "Drop the Charges." It caught on and pretty soon about 100 people were standing in the lobby chanting. It ended when two or three MLA bigwigs came along like mother hens and coaxed us into a large room for some kind of a discussion of MLA structure or whatever. Sometimes politics can be a gas! :-) Bruce's _M.I.A.or Mythmaking in America_ is one of the finest books on contemporary american culture I have ever read. Incidentally, Bruce was the only Stanford grad student in the history of Stanford to achieve tenure there as a professor. Carrol
