Word: kerouac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Through Kerouac's friends, we are shown a troubled man full of ironies and disillusion. But the "Father of the Beats," despite new and radical ideas of how prose should be written, was an exceedingly kind man, and one who firmly believed in things like religion and America. This comes as a surprise to many because of the Bohemians Kerouac portrayed and loved...
When he was a boy, Kerouac lived in the three-decker tenements of Lowell, Mass., then a booming textile and industrial city. He was very close to his parents -- especially to his mother -- who were French-Canadian immigrants. When Jack received an athletic scholarship to Columbia, his mother sighed with relief because her son would be "living with the people he should have grown up with...
...JACK kept in touch with his Lowell friends, most of whom remained in Lowell to work at mills and support families. And the friends Kerouac made at Columbia were not the type his mother had hoped...
Boyhood friend "G.J." Apostolos describes a very sensitive, and sometimes diffident, young Kerouac...
...book's interviews unveil Kerouac's immense sensitivity to and faith in human beings. Carolyn Cassidy claimed that "Jack fell in love with every woman he saw," intimating that he was always worried about hurting his friends and the women he knew. Thus, we are shown a very shy man. Some of Kerouac's childhood friends say that he did not have many girlfriends during high school because his "shyness was always taken as conceit...