Word: fieldsian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...German-American farm boy's face shone with the vocation of the radical outsider proud of belonging to people who have no belongings. Whether he was selling snake oil to farmers in the Southwest (his three-page sales pitch is a masterpiece of W. C. Fieldsian conmanship) or living it up in those all-purpose ashrams known as "studios" in Greenwich Village, Rexroth was on top of the left-wing game. What with his poetry, his industrious sexmanship and painting (he was set up with his own studio at 16), he was a busy man, with a jovial disregard...
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