Word: beatnikism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drawing card was the Northern Communist Beatnik element. They were supposed to sit in and cause much confusion in the ranks, as they did at Cornell and Columbia. Deans Watson and Monro and University Police Chief Robert Tonis had met earlier to discuss the potential disturbance and were on hand for the big event. The Cambridge Police lurked in the parking lot, as did two men in a plain, unmarked car, whom the CRIMSON decided (2-1 with one abstention) were from...
...aged Japanese urologist, helps Finkelstone to discharge his guilt for what happened at Hiroshima by consenting to sterilize the silly schnook; the urologist's death is only casually connected with the affair, but Finkelstone greedily takes the blame for it. The surrogate son, a Sioux scholarship student turned beatnik, helps Finkelstone to engage in hallucinogenic mushroom-munching; the beatnik's death is only remotely related to the hero's spree, but Finkelstone thirstily accepts responsibility. The novel is grotesque and often unpleasant, but it is also funny and unexpectedly successful as the study of a converse Candide...
Producers have no trouble seeing her as Joan of Arc, Ophelia, Queen Victoria, and a neat pre-beatnik in I Am a Camera. But who in the world would ever cast her as a cowpoke? Herself, Julie Harris, 39, that's who. She thought she'd like to try a bit more TV work, and asked her agent if there might be just a little part on her favorite show, Rawhide? Wai, sure, podnuh, and Julie not only gets to fall in love with Rowdy Yates; she gallops around a cattle drive besides. Nice cast, too. "Handling...
...National Theater, decided it needed a thorough overhaul. To thin out the verbal thickets, they called in Poet-Classicist Robert Graves, who made over 300 changes from obscure to understandable Elizabethan. To give the plot a new lift, they unleashed the talents of Director Franco Zeffirelli, whose earlier beatnik Hamlet had the hero intone, "To be or not to be-what the hell...
...experimental milieu they have created, they have taught computers to play ticktacktoe, blackjack, checkers and a passable game of chess, instructed it to compose avant-garde music (the Illiac Suite at the University of Illinois), write simple TV westerns and whodunits, and even try its hand at beatnik poetry. Example...