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...Communism from Italian labor unions. Best known of possible compromise choices is Agagianian, who according to Roman gossip came within a handful of votes of winning election in 1958. Then, as now, some cardinals would not vote for him out of dislike for having "a Pope with a beard." Another Roman papabile is not yet a cardinal: Archbishop Pericle Felici, 50, secretary-general of the Central Preparatory Commission for the Ecumenical Council. A veteran of 15 years in the Curia ranks, Felici will undoubtedly win a red hat. at the next consistory if the Vatican Council is a success...
...broke-a hit or a failure. And so off-Broadway begins as a low-budget protest, and soon becomes so sizable a financial investment that it, too, prices out the adventuresome. But the far-out still have the coffeehouses as a forum for beatnik poetry, strained through the beard...
...Party was never able to adapt itself to it. It was not simply that Marxism produced no literary criticism worth printing, though that was true enough; but even the social criticism of the American Left during the '30's came from men like Parrington, Beard, and Veblen, rather than from Marx. And Aaron's sketch of a figure like Edmund Wilson shows how the its ideology blinded the Party to the efforts o the few liberal thinkers consciously seeking to adapt Marx to America...
...Philip Hobsbaum, Edward Lucie-Smith, George Macbeth, Peter Porter, Peter Redgrove) and declare their dedication to a more accidental poetry, "straggly, diffuse, full of not obviously related particulars, beginning anyhow and seeming to end when the poet becomes naturally tired." Typically, The Group writes about a giggling secretary with "beard-rash that twinkles on my thighs," about an executive with breath "rank and vicious, like menstrual blood," about teeth full of "blotched green mould." Poet Macbeth's imaginary report from a secret-police official achieves the nasty tone The Group is striving...
...beats have not managed to set their dirty metrical feet inside the ivory tower of respectable poetic tradition. On the entirely tenable theory that a beard does not make a bard, the leading literary periodicals (Partisan Review, Kenyan Review, Hudson Review, Sewanee Review) have firmly refused to print action poetry. U.S. poetry is still unshakably dominated by the couth crowd...