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Ann i j iii iiww i' Mai Mnirmntmrri unr't --M3'fc t- arnica c r.actze.v cm.niwsmPStTs maas. lvmu wmsvok ut& if W w 9 & f w f j w m mr W fc r w v w ar r :j wr v J w - - - rj Whatever happened to the New Left? Thsr Is something oddly musical and whimsical about' that question. Like something that might come wafting out of an airport Muzak system, momentarily holding your attention out of vague recognition and then fading away. We are the remnants of the New Left. At least the remnants of the ideals of the New Left. A quiet group that at least in principle b against poverty, hunger, dishonesty in a political system, and inequality. Even the usage of the term "we" here is on a shaky piece of ground. Like many of you, at 21 this year, I was all of 13 years eld ia 1SC3. That leaves me hanging on the coattails and beads of old Moon Baby and her dog Ho Chi Minh as they wandered the muddy fields at Woodstock. Maybe something closer to a general consciousness for the Seventies would he: If everything is all right for us personally, all b well with the world. Which of course it ain't. Joe Klien reports in the latest issue of Rolling Stone that this generation, the last baby-boom, has moved into a majority position in the stream of things. He calls us a demographic bulge, something like a hippopotamus inside a python, moving slowly in one direction. Getting older. Klien ends by fantasizing about a sterile white room sometime in the future. Mottled and liver-stained hands pass around a burning joint in silence, and then fade away. Although Klien oimously had a good time writing his editorial, it b thought-provoking, and in many ways sad. Much of it might prove to be true: Tm sure if student leaders of a few years ago could have predicted the sudden shift in energy and emphasb that dawned just about the time the draft ended, they too could have written a line or two on the subject. A TvTTTh"W7l The fun place' to go at 14th and "O". With this coupon: mm. draw 30c MIXED DEW Klien, like so many, lived through the changes of the last decade. " ; Whatever movement or "phenomenon" he was part of sold itself down the river. The New Left was effectively muted not by a master stroke of the CIA or FBI, but in a more direct and effective way. . A few of the movement's major rallying points were unobtrusively assimilated into the existing system. Queen takes pawn and checkmate. When the 18-year-eld vote became a reality and the draft and war managed to dissipate, the environment, poverty and hunger became not so much bsues as mill stones that were easier to forget than to deal with. America loves Jane Fonda again. Husband Tom Hydan runs for office in California. Eldridge Cleaver discovers God and b touring with the MI found It" campaign. Abbie Hoffman (who b still a fugitive) regularly writes articles for Crawdaddy, Playboy and other magazines, and Daniel Berrigan moves on to fight nuclear power. Perhaps the assimilation of radical leaders and causes was inevitable. What they were, and in many cases are, b not less for the effort. Everything moves on. And move on we have. The eternal flame has gone out, and it b unlikely that it will be rekindled as long as a majority of the people in thb country remain well fed, entertained and comfortable. The portion of Americans, and indeed, the percentage of world population that remains hungry and poor may have to build its own strength somehow, and hopefully it may turn into a NEW new left. And the bsues will be people oriented once again. Hunger b a potent force. 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