Word: beatnikism
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...Beatnik poet and photographer Allen Ginsberg told an audience at the Sackler Lecture Hall last night "we are continually exposed to the flashbulb of death," cameras flashed away and a roar of laughter rose from the crowd of nearly 200 people...
ACENTURY after Gilbert and Sullivan mocked the aesthetic hysteria of the 1880s, the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Society has set Patience in the beatnik 1950s. Since this opera is one of Gilbert and Sullivan's least scintillating, the "beat poet" approach would seem a guaranteed descent into idiocy...
...singers are excellent. The orchestra, on the other hand, is to the production as a wart is to a foot. But that is traditional. And even though the dancers are frequently out of step, the choreography, satirizing dance steps from the 60s, is delightful. In handling the beatnik kitsch, the more the dancers ham it up, the better...
...duress I call for reinforcements, my lawyer, my Harvard Law School Professor from the back seat: "Giiiiiinsburg!"--but it is not the pinstriped one that comes bounding front-seatward over the naugahyde but a flashing purple, orange, and hair between myself and the evil moonface, a poet, a beatnik, a man more sane unconscious than awake, rapping an unmistakable acid/booze rap into the ear of the man who has the power to send 50,000 national guardsmen to drag us to jail in chains, dancing and singing some verbal Mandala, and reaching into his pocket to pull out what...
...hasn't turned against his former values," said Derek M. Newman '90 of Greenough. "He's one of the few living symbols of the beatnik culture...