The Living Theatre's four splendid spectacles were a great event. Like an astonishing portion of the country's popular music, they proved to be in content form outside the social system, not structured by it nor, except as outlet, implementing it: liberated territory. The tribe of disdainers of the money-job-marriage game came to celebrate, greeted the Company with the frivolous cynicism of the stray salesmen present & made a closed party of it, perfuming the air of liberty that they polluted. But the word was Revolution, it was posed in fundamental terms & urgent tones—in the most radical sense possible. Even the attending communists, finding the affair objectively counter-revolutionary, could hardly deny the validity of the ultimate ideal: “eine Assoziation, worin die freie Entwicklung eines jeden die Bedingung für die freie Entwicklung aller ist” (an association in which the free development of each is the condition of the free development of all).