Word: corso
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Allen Ginsberg, Mr. Gregory Corso and Mr. Peter Orlovsky were greeted by a crowd which filled New Lecture Hall to capacity-although the audience thinned out somewhat during the course of the evening-and several hundred were turned away...
Alan Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Peter Orlovsky will read "Howl and Other Poetry" at 8 p.m. tonight in New Lecture Hall. The program will be sponsored by the Harvard Poetry Forum and the Law School Forum...
Would they like to make any comment? 'Yes," said Corso. "Fried shoes. Like it means nothing. It's all a big laughing bowl and we're caught in it. A scary laughing bowl." Added Gregory Corso, with the enigmatic quality of a true Beatnik: "Don't shoot the wart hog." Chimed in Allen Ginsberg: "My mystical shears snip snip snip...
...Gregory Corso, said Gregory Corso, "and I'm not crazy...
...evening's end Peter Orlovsky was in tears because his chum Ginsberg was getting so much attention. Gently, Ginsberg and Corso took Orlovsky back to their borrowed apartment, put him to sleep-or more properly, down on his pad. Then Ginsberg and a bearded friend hit the streets, walked till 6 a.m., talking about their mothers. It was all fried shoes. Like it means nothing. And this week they will do it all over again, by popular demand, at Columbia University in Manhattan...