Word: kerouac
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...poet. From its publication in 1855, Leaves of Grass has been acknowledged by convert or critic as signaling something new and distinctively American. It has been an emancipation proclamation for later generations of U.S. writers as apparently diverse as Thomas Wolfe, Saul Bellow, Henry Miller, James Agee and Jack Kerouac-and for writers anywhere who have felt inhibited by form and classic restraint. Whitman tapped a gusher, and no one reading the letters can doubt that he knew just what he was doing. To a correspondent he gleefully quoted a derisive squib from a critic, which said that...
...final justification that ought to serve to appease the angers of those already offended by the members of clay so far revealed. Ultimate consideration of the Bogart mystique as the Bildungsroman for an age that takes cheerily to names and literary sorrow from the post-war boys (Mailer, Salinger, Kerouac) and can find, with the jubilance of the healthy competitive student, nothing true in the struggling art of its peers, those now circa twenty, cannot help but be instructive to anyone--be he Harvard '37 or Harvard '63--who wants to probe his son or his roommate...
...progressive educators. Method actors, permissive parents, Vedantists, Taoists, Zen Buddhists and Bohemians. Getting personal, he is agin' Jean Jacques Rousseau, Arthur Schopenhauer. Walt Whitman, Alfred Kinsey. Adlai Stevenson, Aldous Huxley, Jack Paar, Caryl Chessman, Erich Fromm, Boris Pasternak, Charles Van Doren, Tennessee Williams, Françoise Sagan, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Archibald MacLeish, Albert Camus. Samuel Beckett, D. T. Suzuki and James F. Powers. He is also agin...
...Beat Hamlet. The self that is sick of self succumbs to self-analysis, self-pity, self-hate, and finally the obsession to be rid of self. "I am emptiness, I am not different from emptiness, neither is emptiness different from me; indeed, emptiness is me," says one of Kerouac's Dharma Bums. The big flirtation between the beatniks and Zen and other forms of Eastern passivism, as Fitch sees it, is a desire to be emptied of self. But it is the self-pitier who truly commands stage center in modern drama, fiction and even life. In a narrow...
...occasion, when the lively arts dominated the dinner conversation, Jack simply left the table and retired early). The Senator thrived on large crowds of people; his lady preferred intimate groups of close friends. Jack read American history; Jackie wolfed down four or five novels, ranging from Colette to Kerouac, a week. They bought an estate at McLean, Va.-and soon discovered it was a mistake. Commuting to the Senate, Jack was frustrated by the 20-minute rush-hour traffic jams at Chain Bridge. "I was alone almost every weekend while Jack traveled the country making speeches," says Jackie...