Word: ginsberg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus, when New York City Welfare Commissioner Mitchell I. Ginsberg emphatically endorsed Kennedy's position by telling the subcommittee that the present welfare system should be "thrown out," Javits retorted angrily: "You'd better not be in too much of a hurry to talk that way, or you may get it thrown out right now. There are many in Congress who want just that." New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller seconded Javits. "It's easy to criticize," he said of Bobby. "But Congress sets the standards. Why doesn't he suggest some new legislation...
...heroes of the New Radicals, as you rightly pointed out, are not turned-on, tuned-out dreamers like Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg. They are tuned-in humanists with the social conscience and the guts to speak out against what they know to be monumental wrongs...
...spawned some dozen magazines and newspapers, including the sensationalist Ramparts and the more intellectual Studies on the Left. The lesser publications appear erratically, when the editors happen to have the money, and tend to be studded by advertisements for psychedelic happenings and underground movies and interviews with Allen Ginsberg or Timothy Leary. They also offer lots of free verse on the joys of copulation, distinguished from John Donne's comparable rhapsodies by a self-conscious injection of four-letter words doggedly intended to shock. The movement's bard is Bob Dylan (when in doubt, New Leftists always sing...
...Ginsberg's liner notes are even more relentless. "Dirty Old Man? Who said he was dirty, some other dirty old man masturbating in the bathroom with one hand and hypnotizing you with the Network official News thru a microphone in the other hand...
...Fugs positively reek of "redeeming social importance." While their lyrics can be brutally sharp--"Kill for Peace" is a savage attack on the Vietnam war--their message is one of love. Writes Ginsberg, the funniest of the hippie saints, "Birchites are lacklove, Republicans and Democrats too are lacklove, Communists lack love, Narco, fuzz and White South Governors lack love. I say make love to them. They need it most. We all have to be funny saints to survive...