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DOCTOR SAX (245 pp.)-Jack Kerouac -Grove Press (clothbound, $3.50; paperback...
...reasons are very clear. TIME puts you at ease in any conversational circle, whether the talk evolves around Khrushchev or Kerouac...Rickover or Rockefeller...Bernsteing or Bardot...You'll use the facts you find in TIME dozens of times each...
...Leslie Fiedler's remarks about the Harper's Bazaar "literary academy" (of which Capote was supposedly a prominent member): "Critics have to make a living." The same was true, he added, about "all this Beat Generation talk. I read Kerouac and that other fellow, that poet, and they have nothing in common. Critics just have to have something to say, to write about...
...Jack Kerouac, in On the Road, defining the Beat Generation...
...experts disagreed violently about whether the actor with the sweatshirt and the lyric lunkishness really could boast the credentials of a true beatnik. Certain habits are in his favor: he has been known to greet visitors in his underwear, date hash-house waitresses, play the bongo drums. In Beatnik Kerouac's phrase, he seems to want everything at the same time. On the other hand, he has been living in a pleasant split-level Hollywood house instead of a way-out pad in San Francisco's North Beach; he has extensive investments; he has never said a single...