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...reading his epic poem of outrage and lament to commemorate the 25th anniversary of its publication. Media announcements have recalled the public theatrics of the poet, an ostentatious non-comformist, a self-described "Hebraic Melvillean bardic breath." He drew together the strident Beat Generation of the 1950s, led the flower children of the 1960s into Eastern religions, hymned the antinuclear movement of the 1970s. Throughout, he sustained his vernacular yet visionary voice-marked, said one admiring fellow poet, by a "note of hysteria that hit the taste of the young...
...Barb; of cancer; in Berkeley, Calif. Founded in 1965 during the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, the Barb proselytized for revolution, drugs and "free" sex, peaking at 90,000 readers in 1969, before closing in 1980. Scherr made the paper profitable not only by anticipating the sentiments of the "flower children" but also by paying low wages and raking in revenue from sexually explicit ads purchased by massage parlors...
...purchase was the brainstorm of Eliot Wadsworth II, 39, owner of White Flower Farm, a $3 million-a-year mail-order nursery in Litchfield, Conn. White Flower has advertised in Horticulture "almost forever," and in The New Yorker nearly as long. The New Yorker assumes 60% ownership, while Wadsworth, a Harvard M.B.A., gains a 40% interest and editorial control. The editorial staff of two, who work among potted plants in a two-story red-brick gingerbread Boston building, will not be pruned. Both of them go on quietly sprouting seasonal articles ("Make Way for Anthuriums") and such regular features...
...pleasant suburban home, is dying of cancer. Here are the themes, announced at once: In the child's mind, place is a masculine proposition, a dubious promise of the good life sketched out in survey maps, prospective buyers, and the cheerful desolation of lots. The female propositions--death, repose--flower from the middle of that promise. Place, which is everywhere present and palpable, is not quite real; and death, which is not present and everywhere palpable, is very real. the two are somehow married, though they seem not to talk to each other much...