Word: genetics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much can be said for some of the other coverage now emerging. Editors chose some unlikely writers to cast a new light on events, and it is quite often a lurid one. In Esquire, that chronicler of human decay and perversion, Jean Genet, reports that he could smell America decomposing; he was also fascinated by the size of the thighs of Chicago cops. In the same magazine, William Burroughs concocts a fantasy in which a purple-bottomed baboon runs for President. Esquire's John Sack, on the other hand, convincingly finds the typical cop much more playful, much less...
...towering figures of the French stage. A brilliant mime and tragedian, he has also been a potent instigator of dramatic innovation as director of the Théâtre de France, giving world premières of works by such playwrights as Beckett, lonesco and Genet. Last week Barrault interrupted rehearsals at his company's permanent home, the Odéon Theater on Paris' Left Bank, to announce that he had been dismissed as its director. The coup de grâce was administered in a curt letter from his old friend, André Malraux, France...
...enhance its reputation for publishing the unexpected, Esquire was not inclined to entrust its convention coverage to conventional reporters. The magazine may never again be able to field as odd a team of reporters as the threesome it sent to Chicago: Novelist William Burroughs, French Novelist and Playwright Jean Genet, and Satirist Terry Southern. They were joined on arrival by Poet Allen Ginsberg, who was in town to observe...
Almost instinctively, the four began their work with a pilgrimage to the hippie encampment in Lincoln Park. It was mutual love at first sight. Hippies fondled Ginsberg's black beard and flowing tresses; Genet showered dollar bills on the hippies and received a hippie ring in return. "They are so beautiful; they are such angels," he murmured. The convention that the four were supposed to be covering was less to their taste. "Boring and unoriginal" snapped Genet. So he and his colleagues decided to return to the idyllic delights of Lincoln Park, only to run into a clash with...
Obsessed with Dogs. The foursome split into twosomes. Ginsberg and Genet held hands in Esquire cars and wandered rhapsodically among the hippies; Burroughs and Southern spent their happiest hours in the dark, cool interiors of various bars, where they were joined by Southern's girlfriend. But as becomes participant-journalists, they showed up at all the proper rebellious places. At the un-birthday party thrown for Lyndon Johnson by the hippies in the Chicago Coliseum, they matched animalistic descriptions of the cops. Burroughs called them "vicious dogs," and asked: "Is there not a municipal ordinance requesting that vicious dogs...