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...BEAT GENERATION AND THE ANGRY YOUNG MEN (384 pp.)-edited by Gene Feldman and Max Gartenberg-Citadel...
...Smith) White, 50, has long been regarded by fellow newsmen as the most astute chronicler of the U.S. Senate-and by strangers is often taken for one of its members. Along with his polished daily reporting, Bill White has found time to write two successful books: 1957 Citadel, an admirer's analysis of the Senate, and The Taft Story, which won him a 1955 Pulitzer Prize in Letters. Last week Reporter White quit the Times after 13 years to fill a rare opening in the ranks of Washington pundits. Taking over from Thomas L. Stokes, whose career has been...
...poets are too many for discussion here. They range from Peter Jones (who edits an English little magazine) to Peter Heliczer. Even I. A. Richards and a San Francisco poet contribute minor works. Taken as a lump (or, with Mr. Wyman's permission, a "citadel") the poets are craftsmen of word and form, but that's about all. Images like "oval charm" and "cockpit of empyreuma" sound better sans inspection. And some of the poems rhyme...
...Strange One (Horizon; Columbia) is the film version of End As a Man, a study of extracurricular activities at a Southern military academy, published in 1947 by Novelist Calder Willingham (who attended The Citadel in 1940). The movie may stimulate some furious second-thinking in many readers who (like James T. Farrell) thought that Willingham had made "a permanent contribution to American literature." With most of its sensationally fleshy parts removed, the bare-bones plot stands revealed as no more-and no less-than a cleverly constructed thriller...
Back at the Compound. Beck often spends a quiet evening with Dorothy, a gentle, grey-haired woman who suffers from high blood pressure. Beck likes to read ("I've read nearly everything ever written about Napoleon"; "I just got through Citadel by William White of the N.Y. Times, and incidentally, it's a hell of a condemnation of the excesses in congressional investigations"), and he also enjoys television. He dotes on big-money quiz shows. "I do fairly good on some of those questions," says Beck, in a rueful comparison with his answers on John McClellan...