Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...along with Dr. Timothy Leary (former Harvard professor of Psychiatry), Baba Ram Dass (formerly Dr. Richard Alpert, one of Leary's close associates at Harvard during their LSD experiments in the late '60s) and other artists and political compatriots are now regarded by many as relics of the psychedelic age. Still, Ginsberg burned bright, and it was clear he had changed a great deal since those days, when Leary and Alpert locked themselves inside a building and dropped 400 micrograms of LSD every four hours for three weeks. Ginsberg said he hadn't tripped since 1973, and he wouldn...
Robert Moore began his career as an actor, making his Broadway debut at age 19 in Jean Kerr's Jenny Kissed Me. "I'm still basically an out-of-work actor," he said. "Acting is a nice way to goof off." In 1968, he made his professional directing debut with The Boys in the Band. "I didn't really want to direct it. I was directing college theater at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., and Mart Crowley, the author, was a student of mine. He had been working on the play and he brought...
...born minus an ear, and he likes to treat them young, before they have to face schoolmates' cruel kidding. His youngest patient to date was three, which meant there was still time for a new ear to grow a bit. Normally, an ear reaches near-adult size by age six. One of his happy patients is Lance Chervony, 5, of San Jose. He seemed untroubled by lack of a normal ear, though it attracted playground attention. Now in school after a Brent operation, he displays his new ear proudly and proclaims: "Dr. Brent gave...
...age 40, that rumpled Alexander of the television world, Fred Silverman, was running out of worlds to conquer. He started at CBS as a whiz kid just a few years out of college and in twelve years there, culminating as chief programmer for entertainment shows, he helped keep the Big Eye on top. Moving over to ABC as head of entertainment in 1975, he helped push it past CBS to No. 1. That left only NBC, currently bottom tube on network row. Last week, to lure Silverman away from ABC, NBC gave him the store. It named Silverman president...
...Auden once wrote: "Had one to name the author who comes nearest to bearing the same kind of relation to our age as Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe bore to theirs, Kafka is the first one would think of." Kafka has achieved a peculiar sort of extended immortality, alive not only in his books but also as an idea, an item of vocabulary employed by people who never read a phrase he wrote. It is an odd fate for the haunted functionary of the Workers' Accident Insurance Institute in Prague: his magnificent hallucinations have collapsed in the public mind...