Word: listens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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literature is not so non-beat as you seem to think or the test is time & i dont mean your publication-which is only another type of literature, feel free to print howl, moan or anything else. listen beat does not always mean unwashed or workless-i have 2 exhibitions here within the next fortnight-one at "city lights." gregory corso [is] first angel poet of america. stop laughing at artists...
...that he really did not want to see any more of the U.S. landscape than he could avoid (he ducked a visit to TVA and Ike's old home at Abilene, Kans.). Quite obviously, he wanted a lot of places to talk and a lot of people to listen to him. From all the week-before signs, that is just what most of the curious and relaxed U.S. wanted...
...three years, Quincy devoted himself to his practice, his wife, and his studies. The Puritan Ethic did not permit idle time; Quincy's dairy is replete wtih statements such as, "I resolve, therefore, in future to be more circumspect--to hoard my moments with a more thrifty spirit--to listen less to the suggestions of indolence, and so quicken that spirit of intellectual improvement to which I devote my life." In addition to copious readings in the classics, he spent a great deal of time learning French, studying botany, keeping an extensive diary, and attending to affairs legal and political...
...days; the quarters clink in the slot for the grinding corn of Fabian or Frankie Avalon. or the molasses-slow maundering of Johnny Mathis. Lola, who must settle for less, deserves more. She has been learning her trade, scrabbling at the edges of show business, ever since she sang Listen to the Mocking Bird at her home-town Y.W.C.A. in Akron 25 years ago. She was a gawky ten-year-old then, defiant of her parents' dislike of anything that smacked of entertainment. Today, at 35, she sometimes concludes that show business has been defying...
...simple: that is how things are. Smaragthi remains consistent to the end, unmarried, herself a sort of mermaid Madonna who rolls naked in the sea like a porpoise but shrinks with revulsion from a man's touch. The fishermen soak up the local booze, beat their wives, and listen with awe to the tavernkeeper's yarns about the wonders of America, where he made his pile. An ancient crone tells wondrous fairy tales. A pathetic schoolmaster dreams of the great day when Greece will rise and take Anatolia from the Turks. But above all, there is a palpable...