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This is one of those resounding overstatements at once perfectly true and thoroughly misleading. It is not hard to find elements in Beat writing-or any other serious writing of the time-that predicted something as vague as "almost schizophrenic change" in "the temper of our times." Allen Ginsberg, whose poem Howl is generally thought to have started the literary side of the movement, sang of devastated minds, mysticism and hallucinogenic drugs. Gregory Corso raged against authority, lamented the thinning of his wild hair and questioned the institution of marriage. Jack Kerouac's On the Road bubbled about...
...Harvard Lampoon has done its thing in our image, and P.G. Wodehouse once wrote a poem, "TIME Like an Ever-Rolling Stream," about our masthead. Poet Allen Ginsberg viewed us from his rather special perspective in his counterculture epic America...
...Ginsberg does not exactly enjoy his obsession, another TIME watcher is more positive (and eclectic). Matthew Fox, a Roman Catholic theologian, this year published Religion U.S.A.: Religion and Culture by Way of TIME Magazine. In 451 pages, Fox argues that the magazine is as symbolic was its era's attitudes and aspirations as Chartres Cathedral was of the Middle Ages...
...largely responsible for the present popularity of poetry readings as a kind of folk festival. Their roots go back to the late '50s, when shaggy beatniks bellowed into the smoke-filled darkness along San Francisco's North Beach. Their once and probably future guru is Allen Ginsberg, now 45, and his Howl ("I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness") is still the best of the genre. Ginsberg made the poet into a folk figure again, and it was Ginsberg, too, who led the trek into Indian sutra land. Such preoccupations have taken more...
Last week the once furry-faced arch-beatnik appeared before a flock of followers in Berkeley without a beard-and without his old vigor. Denying that he had ever said he would not shave until the Viet Nam War was over, Ginsberg insisted that "it has nothing to do with anything conceptual." Speaking sedately, as befits an elder statesman, even of the counterculture, Poet Ginsberg announced that he was making some recordings: William Blake in an album of mantra chants. "I don't suppose anyone will make any money on it," Ginsberg said resignedly...