Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alice Brock and the others who are at the center of Alice's Restaurant are a different kind of misfit in a different kind of misfit in a different kind of America. They are potent, generous people with good minds and uncluttered hearts. They know how to love. And the America they find themselves in is not one of depression but one of abundance...
They came into the audience at the end of the evening and asked to be loved. And the Loeb audience, the bourgeoisie and its offspring, did seem to love these metamorphosed gutter rats from New York. Partly this was because they had entertained us, and for that we stood to applaud. They had taken milk crates (their only set or props) and marched with them straight into ballet. And they had externalized the tenseness of their maladjustments into the tension of drama...
...people can't relate to each other only in generalized and public ways. Augie must ask Louie for love. Stephanie must ask Lance. Neither is allowed to merely speak the words. The Daytop group won't let them retreat and slide through the final Marathon encounter. They must scream and agonize until feeling comes through protective bravado...
Daytop Village, with its encounter-group therapy and treatment of ex-addicts by other ex-addicts, has a 90 per cent cure rate. The Federal hospital at Lexington, Kentucky is three per cent successful. The surrogate family, the supplemental love and caring seem essential. Methadone, government administered maintenance programs for addicts, and jails seem the kind of shortcuts on which everyone gets lost...
...bought a record of his autobiographical poems. I think these poems told me how he came to wrest a new view of the world from his old background. And, as I remember his poetry, with the fragmentary recall we use to remember such literature, these themes come to mind: love, anger at unintended cruelty, cynicism, a restlessness in the presence of old portraits, and a cry that someone discover a new order and resting place for the soul...