It remains one of the mysteries -- how certain things just chance to be ''in the air'' at a given time. Right now, for instance, for no reason I can discern, we are awash in accounts of American radicals in the high season of the counterculture. From media reports on the release from prison of Kathy Boudin, to the publication this month of Susan Braudy's ''Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left,'' to Sam Green and Bill Siegel's recent documentary, ''The Weather Underground,'' we are reminded at every turn of what that latter group once called the ''days of rage.''
Read it @ NYT October 5, 2003
