Word: ginsberg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
That isn't exactly Ode on a Grecian Urn; neither is Benedikt picking his way through seven types of ambiguity. For all their seeming frivolity, these lines exhibit a directness that has been increasingly admired ever since the mid-'50s when Allen Ginsberg and the beats accelerated the popularity of the simple, charged statement...
Need for Specifics. Dissenting, Justice Abe Fortas pointed out that the boy had been directed to make the purchase by his mother in an effort to get Ginsberg convicted. "Bookselling," said Fortas, "should not be a hazardous profession." The magazines that Sam Ginsberg sold were admittedly not obscene for adults; how was he to know that they were obscene for children? The court must define "the extent to which literature or pictures may be less offensive in order to be 'obscene' for purposes of a statute confined to youth...
...from movies found unsuitable by a local board of censors. Speaking for an 8-to-1 majority, Justice Thurgood Marshall found that the standards to be applied under the ordinance were unconstitutionally vague. Dallas and other communities may now pattern their laws after the New York statute upheld in Ginsberg, but even that decision leaves a large question unanswered. It is now all right to ban certain materials for children, but just what those materials are remains to be spelled...