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Word: mushiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1957-1957
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...poet who goes in for grimmer kicks than limericks is the hero of another Music story-The Cool, Cool Bards. Kenneth Rexroth has started an unshaven love affair between verse and jazz, and it is proliferating like a weird crop of mushrooms throughout San Francisco jazz joints. Mushiest of the mushrooms is a poem entitled Thou Shalt Not Kill, a lengthy dirge for hordes of long-lost poets who somehow strayed from their vocation. In it, among other things, Rexroth asks dolefully: "How many stopped writing at 30? How many went to work for TIME?" By latest count there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 2, 1957 | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

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