Abstract:On 21 October 1967 Allen Ginsberg, Abbie Hoffiman, and Ed Sanders of the band The Fugs, and others, organized an "exorcism" of the Pentagon in which several thousand demonstrators participated. Most historians have regarded this event as "a put on" or at best as "performance art. " This article takes seriously the nominal status of the ritual as a "saaed" or "magical" event. Tt argues that the organizers were utilizing innovative strategies of social action to alter the terms of debate regarding the Vietnam Wa… Show more
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