Word: beatness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is a true--albeit sordid--story of the artistic mentality in turmoil. Names have sometimes been changed, facts occasionally exaggerated, but the pattern remains the same. Harvard's Beat Generation is attempting to survive the summer on a dollar a day--waiting for the publisher's advance, the completed symphony, or a Beacon Street-sponsored gallery exhibition. It is a long, hot, and purgative summer; and, in its way, a time of epic proportions...
...this foaming by the Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men is the result of overpopulation, the taking of oneself too seriously, and the herd instinct to compare one's lot with one's fellow...
...Your June 9 reporting on rock-'n'-roller Jerry Lee Lewis and The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men, leaves me generously nauseated. After returning from two years duty in the Far East, I am seriously concerned over the very evident change in our country's cultural and amusement pursuits. When a supposedly enlightened people commence raising such types to positions of wealth and influence, then we as a nation have taken a long step toward fulfilling Marx's prophecy for capitalism. It is obvious that our churches, schools and parents have a monumental...
...When the regatta ended, every Big Red crew on Lake Onondaga had proved a good deal better than that. After falling scant seconds short in shorter races all season, Cornell finally found the three-mile I.R.A. course just the right distance. Understroking the opposition all the way, the varsity beat Navy by three lengths. Using the same tactics, the Jayvees and Freshmen completed Cornell's second sweep of the lake...
...Jordan meets other Phoenix Islanders, she begins to feel that only the sun, sea and sand qualify as neither phony nor vicious. There is a Beat Generation bop-talker who tries to soft-sell Jordan on a cool love affair. There is a native Neanderthal man who tries to pin Jordan to the floorboards of the half-built ginmill in which he hopes to mulct the summer trade. There are assorted homosexuals, spivish repairmen and alcoholics-unanimous from TV, ad alley and publishers' row. The crisis on which the plot slowly turns is whether the Neanderthal man will complete...