Part I Provo! Provo! Provo! Provo! Provo! Provo! They used to be called “Nosems,” the Dutch beatnik. The new word rides out of France. The Provo is the new young style in Holland—the Provocateur—the Hipster. They stopped being Nosems when …
FE Author: Hank Malone
Detroit—Spring & Summer
by Hank Malone
Fifth Estate # 78, May 1-14, 1969
I. Imagine this scene: a bright cloudless warm May Sunday in Detroit. On days like this, rare as the purple wallaby, half the local population has suddenly taken cover indoors in a shroud of bubbling beercans, listening to Tiger announcer, …
Rebellion in Nowhere
by Hank Malone
Fifth Estate # 76, April 3-16, 1969
I Rioting by 250 Black youths, says a UPI dispatch dated March 23, 1969, brought 200 police from 10 communities to the 20,000-student campus at Northern Illinois University at DeKalb.
Pimp—”Black Capitalist”
by Hank Malone
Fifth Estate # 75, March 20-April 2, 1969
a review of Pimp, by Iceberg Slim, Holloway House Publishing Company, 1967, paperback, 95 cents.
Our Dreams Proved Innocent
by Hank Malone
Fifth Estate # 73, February 20-March 5, 1969
A review of Jerry Rubin’s “Letter to the Movement,” New York Review of Books, Feb. 13, 1969, 40 cents. The Young American Poets, edited by Paul Carroll, Follet Publishing Co., 1968, $3.95, Evergreen Review Reader, edited by Barney Rosset, Grove …
Voodoo in Detroit
by Hank Malone
Fifth Estate # 72, February 6 - 19, 1969
I Voodoo is a colloquial corruption of Vodo, the name of an African godhead, the Holy Serpent. The practice of Voodoo has been, until recent years, the most consistently revolutionary and anti-establishment force among poor blacks in the United …
No money, no barter
by Hank Malone, Judith Malina, Julian Beck
Fifth Estate # 69, December 26, 1968-January 8, 1969
On December 12, 13, and 14, The Living Theatre, an amazing theatrical community numbering over 35, performed three of the four productions of their repertoire: “Mysteries and Smaller Pieces,” “Antigone,” and “Frankenstein” (“Paradise Now” is the fourth) at the Detroit …
The Beatles
by Hank Malone
Fifth Estate # 68, December 12-25, 1968
a review of The Beatles, The Authorized Biography, by Hunter Davies, McGraw Hill, 1968, NYC, $6.95, 357 pp.
Tricky Dick and the Flying Saucer
by Hank Malone
Fifth Estate # 66, November 14-27, 1968
An interesting omen—a few days ago, barely preceding the Nixonian “renaissance” I received in the mail a strange newly-issued artifact of the Eisenhower-Nixon era. It was a pamphlet titled HOW TO SAVE THE WORLD, published by- none other than The …
Safe in Heaven
by Hank Malone
Fifth Estate # 92, November 13-26, 1969
I. That old city-planner, Death, caught up with Jack Kerouac this October. Reportedly, it was an ugly death; drunk and despairing, his guts literally busting and bleeding inside the heavy lonely flesh. Kerouac had ruined his great good looks years …