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...center of this culture crisis was Poet-Painter William Morris. 28. who can make with both the words and the brushes. "If Jack Kerouac is the prose writer of the Beat Generation, I am its visual chronicler," boasts Morris. As a painter, Los Angeles-born Morris once rode a motor scooter from Barcelona ("I cleaned Miro's studio") to Denmark (where he painted canvases with his bare feet), has kept a partial record of 25 exhibitions and eight museums in which his work hangs. As a poet, Morris has the word from Ezra Pound ("In 50 years you will...
...plenty of mangoes, breadfruit and papayas, the islanders could not starve. But as citizens of France they demanded and got a raise in living standards toward mainland levels. Jobmaking new schools, hospitals, public buildings and government housing went up. Roads went down and quickly filled with Peugeots, Renaults and motor scooters. Literacy rose: in Martinique 99% of school-age children are in school, in Guadeloupe...
Wanted: TV producer to turn out 30 NBC spectaculars for Ford Motor Co. Budget: $12 million. Salary...
...rumors went around that the Italo-Suisse company planned to build a pipeline from Genoa to Switzerland, its shares zipped from $138 to $229 in a few days. Last week they worried off to $176. Last fortnight the most aggressive tipster service. I.F.A.S.. rode up the stock of Motor Colombus by 10% in a single day simply by reporting-with no fact or explanation-that it would jump sensationally. Last week the stock lost half its 10% gain, and at least one other hard-touted stock. Columbus Electronic, dropped to less than half the price at which I.F.A.S. recently...
...African. The story ends with a clink and a gurgle. "Our faces glowing with liquor, our eyes more flashing, our tongues volubly tripping and repeating, we had great concert of talk and narrative, admiring ourselves and one another with warm, welcoming, smiling, appreciative, comradely, rosy hearts. We talked of motor engines and Henry Ford, of poith?n and the fairy fire, of famous poachers and deeds of blood and all the subtle stratagems of the Gael...