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"Judge" before his name wore
a black robe and the other
Hoffman wore manacles.
And Hoffman's Yippie
street theater politics calm
out of another theater, one
with distinctly Jewish roots —
vaudeville. Just when ev-
eryone was taking himself
too, tot, seriously along came
a wacko, baggy-pants come-
dian — Abbie Hoffman,
Ladies and Gentleman — and
a pinch of pretense and
sobriety would be deflated out
of them.
Even his heroes were
Jewish; three guys who, in
Hoffman's words, decided "to
go for broke" — Spinoza,
Marx and Freud. And he had
briefly considered dedicating
his • seventh book, Square-
Dancing in the Ice Age to
Anne Frank. The book was a
collection of his writings
while underground. He said
he had developed a great ad-
miration for the young diarist
Oc during his own years in
hiding, "but," he said,
didn't think my book serious
enough to link- her name with
it."
Hoffman was the classic
"non-Jewish Jew," the fellow
who rejects institutionalized
movements, who rejects in-
stitutionalization of any kind.
His tactics were suited to the
times. The terrible anarchy of
Vietnam had bred a puckish,
wild, free-for-all anarchy in
those who opposed the war.
But as tempers cooled and
0). Yippies turned into Yuppies
and VWs into BMWs, Abbie
Hoffman fell just a bit out of
step with the times. He
became, as the kids say,
"history," or, at least, a part
of it.
History. That's where Hoff-
mail is. Relegated to the
dustbin thereof. And to the
dustbin of cheap nostalgia
and easy memories, of tie-
dyed merchandising and Big
Chill flicks, of yellowing
issues of Ramparts magazine
and mildewed sandals at the
rear of the closet of someone
who now lives in the sort of
house that he would have
snickered at a decade ago.
Unless. Unless something
more meaningful can be
made out of the life of so-
meone who called himself "an
American dissident" and who
grew into an age when
dissidence and ideology had
little calling; who turned a
lively and raucous sense of
humor into a sometimes effec-
tive, but often baffling
political tool; who thought
that today's college students
— despite their yearnings for
cash and materialism — could
still see beyond themselves.
That shouldn't be too hard,
should it? ❑

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