Word: beatness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defendants. Willion Collinswort, 23; Patrick Scarborough, 20; David Ervin Beagles, 18, and Ollie Stoutamire, 16, made up a sorry lot of delinquents, victims as well as products of their squalid environments. Collinsworth. an illiterate telephone lineman, is a chronic drunk, son of a sadist who beat him habitually throughout his childhood. Scarborough, an Air Force enlisted man, is an orphan whose mother was shot to death in a barroom brawl when he was seven and whose father committed suicide the same year. Stoutamire quit school after the eighth grade, has had a brush with juvenile authorities. Beagles is a high...
...inched closer to the heart. By 1956, with specially knit synthetic tubing (better for many cases than artery-bank material), and an oxygenator fitted to an updated model of his 1932 pump, Dr. DeBakey was able to operate within a couple of inches of the heart, and stop its beat at will...
Storm center of this culture crisis was Poet-Painter William Morris. 28. who can make with both the words and the brushes. "If Jack Kerouac is the prose writer of the Beat Generation, I am its visual chronicler," boasts Morris. As a painter, Los Angeles-born Morris once rode a motor scooter from Barcelona ("I cleaned Miro's studio") to Denmark (where he painted canvases with his bare feet), has kept a partial record of 25 exhibitions and eight museums in which his work hangs. As a poet, Morris has the word from Ezra Pound ("In 50 years...
That cooled the crisis, but not Morris, who seized the opportunity to bring his painting to the attention of a wider audience. "I'm sick of what passes for art," he explains. "I'm for beat, beat like a drum. I'm for action. There isn't anybody moving in painting. Like they're all shot. I'm starting a new school-action expressionism. The action signifies the beat behind...
...paragraph, Hamlet-like in itself, sums up the strengths and the weaknesses of André Gide: "I hope the young man who may read me will feel on an equal footing with me. I don't bring any doctrine; I resist giving advice; and in a discussion I beat a hasty retreat. But I know that today many seek their way gropingly and don't know in whom to trust. To them I say: believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it; doubt everything, but don't doubt of yourself. There is more...