Word: corso
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Around the globe, others shared America's enthusiasm. In Paris, emergency electrical generators were turned on to keep TV tubes glowing through the night. In a crowded bar on Rome's Corso di Francia, one Italian disparaged the Apollo achievement-and was clobbered in a fist-swinging, bottle-throwing brawl. In Japan, Emperor Hirohito canceled a botanical outing in the woods to watch TV. In Germany and in Uruguay, police reported a sharp drop in crime while Eagle was resting on the moon. Said a West Berlin police sergeant: "I wish there were moon landings every night...
...against both society and the academic, formalist mode of poetry. Three schools of revolutionary poets were founded: the San Francisco school of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gary Snyder; the Black Mountain school of Charles Olson, Robert Duncan and Robert Creeley; and the New York school of Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery. Basically, the San Francisco school represented a fresh imagism combined with oriental influences; the Black Mountain group leaned toward an intellectual eclecticism typical of Ezra Pound's Cantos; and the New York school was surreal and Dadaistic, or more adamantly colloquial...
...make clear, no longer publishes make clear, no longer publishes the stuff produced in English C; consequently it no longer publishes much written by undergraduates. Convinced that its readers want commentary on every literary experiment and personality, the Advocate of the 1950's and 60's has printed Gregory Corso, Stephen Spender, Richard Wilbur, William Burroughs, dialogs with Brother Antoninus, and commentaries on Stevens, Faulkner, and Robert Lowell...
...Several years ago, there was a movement to intellectualize "action writing" and Kerouac, Corso, Ginsberg, et al. This was followed by the effort to intellectualize action and pop painting, which, I guess, is still with us. Now we are in the throes of a movement to lend some sort of credit to beat music. TIME can see no farther than the end of its nose...
...poems, like the one by "Beat" Poet Gregory Corso, are full of fury and disgust...