VLVL "the Movement"

[MalignD at aol.com]

<<I had indeed. 


[said:   "By 1968-9, the time depicted in the novel, the counterculture had 
forgotten all about civil rights and the Vietnam War ..."]   

And then I clarified the statement.>>

Yes, you had already started backpedaling to: 

<<but after the campus strikes and the march on Washington in 1970 there were 
no more protests of note)>>

--and you continue to do so. 

<<What for? The student movement started falling apart pretty dramatically at
the end of '68, as I've said, and from 1971 on it was all but non-existent.>>

We're now in 1971, rather than 1968.

<<There's been no claim made that it was some "united bastion", merely that 
the
alliances between groups and mutual support and goodwill dissipated as the 
decade progressed.>>

Mutual support and goodwill?   That's, you're saying, what you meant all 
along by organization?

<<Who did?>>

Who said the Freedom Ride in 1961 had anything to do the Berkeley free speech 
movement in 1964?   That would have been you.   Need I cite again?

<<But, by the end of 1970, the wheels had totally fallen off.>>

No, that would have been "all but" dead in 1971 (see your comments, above).   
Don't pin yourself down unnecessarily.



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