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...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 of his time lately than...
walking, you would howl like a wind tunnel...
...doctors conclude that most babies can be placed in one of three categories that mothers were using long before child psychology became popular: difficult, slow-to-warm-up or easy. Like Clem, all difficult infants (about one in ten) react intensely to everything: instead of soft crying, an enraged howl; instead of quiet chuckles, uncontrolled laughter, sometimes ending in a paroxysm of hiccups. Eating and sleeping schedules are irregular, and everything new requires long periods of difficult adjustment. Easy children-the most numerous category-are regular in habit, sunny in mood, quick to adapt. And the slow-to-warm...
Like Philip Schechter, Martin Siegel has a jaundiced view of Reform Judaism. He, too, is 37: the two men, in fact, were classmates at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. There the resemblance ends. Schechter's anger is a howl from the pulpit: Siegel's is a whine from the swimming pool...
...third section shows some scenes in Mexico, Tangier, and Europe, the trips abroad before Kerouac and Ginsberg returned to the United States to be famous after the publication of Howl. On the Road Evergreen Review No. 2, and The New American Poetry. The last picture in this final section, a picture of a sullen Kerouac in Tangier, has a caption below it that is prophetic: "At that time I sincerely believed that the only decent activity in the world was to pray for everyone, in solitude... At that very moment, the manuscript of On the Road was being linotyped...