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This is one of those resounding overstatements at once perfectly true and thoroughly misleading. It is not hard to find elements in Beat writing-or any other serious writing of the time-that predicted something as vague as "almost schizophrenic change" in "the temper of our times." Allen Ginsberg, whose...
A Little Numb. In addition to Ginsberg (and Kerouac), many of the people Cook interviewed-Kenneth Rexroth, Burroughs, Poets Robert Duncan and Michael McClure-make sensible distinctions between the Beats. In fact, the distinctions are so varied that the term "beat" means anything from tired blood to street existentialism to...
A fairer estimate lies somewhere between drinks. Although writers from Poe and Hawthorne to William Burroughs, Anthony Burgess and Doris Lessing have written what could be called science fiction, professional science-fiction writers have rarely been encouraged to be good stylists as well. This is partly because SF publishing and...
Price War. Despite such doubts among their customers, the major producers of computer hardware-IBM, Burroughs, Control Data, RCA, NCR, Sperry Rand-have all brought out new products within the last year. Many of them are so-called "fourth generation" computers: incredibly complex instruments of astronomical calculating power. In fact...
Ann Charters assembled the photographs (most of which are from the collection of Allen Ginsberg), the quotations, and the captions in Scenes: the book is published in a limited edition of 2000. (The Harvard Coop Bookstore has a small pile of copies available.) It's divided into three sections; the...