A contact out of the blue from a
Berkeley undergrad named Daniel Kennard began to explain the mystery. A secret campaign had been organized to prevent reviews or further comment on the play, and a rave review had been spiked by an aging Berkeley leftist who prided himself on his involvement in the school's Free Speech campaigns of the mid-1960s. The group behind the attacks on
the play falsely claimed that I and Phelim had been funded and supported
by Chevron. They had used this slander to persuade editors that the
play should be marked off as corporate PR and ignored.
Ironically, they had themselves received funding from one of the play's subjects and were obviously interested parties.
How had I gotten involved in all this?
Big mess. Involving a bunch of environmentalists and some crooks. And a lot of money.
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