Word: beatnikism
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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...
...crucial difference in these agencies, however, lies not in the social and economic composition of their forces, but rather in their leadership. In both cities, the sheriffs and the troopers belong to the cowboy school, which holds that the only way to deal with the Commie beatnik agitators is to run roughshod over them. The police chiefs in the two towns, on the other hand, while not always just, use restraint in their defenses of an unjust order...
Antics & Reaction. In the last few years, Dr. Cohen and other reputable researchers have been disturbed by what he calls the "beatnik microculture" and its abuses of LSD and other hallucinogens. The danger, he says, is that public reaction against oddball antics may set back serious research for many years...