Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Would they like to make any comment? 'Yes," said Corso. "Fried shoes. Like it means nothing. It's all a big laughing bowl and we're caught in it. A scary laughing bowl." Added Gregory Corso, with the enigmatic quality of a true Beatnik: "Don't...
Hollyhocks & Daisies. The trio was an instant hit with the literary upper crust. There was in fact only one unbeliever in the crowd, one William Haskins, instructor in English at Northwestern University. Demanded Corso: "Man, why are you knocking the way I talk? I don't knock the way...
By evening's end Peter Orlovsky was in tears because his chum Ginsberg was getting so much attention. Gently, Ginsberg and Corso took Orlovsky back to their borrowed apartment, put him to sleep-or more properly, down on his pad. Then Ginsberg and a bearded friend hit the streets...
Though Dutch newspapers greeted the U.S.I.A. statement with blunt disbelief, Saris began having his doubts. Was this or was this not a question of race discrimination? he wired the local N.A.A.C.P. "Positively race discrimination," came the reply. "Thank you," Saris wired back. "We will roll on." A Dutch Communist paper...
Denigrated Ladies. Based upon the Wolfenden Report published 18 months ago (TIME, Sept. 16, 1957), Butler's 600-word bill covers prostitutes and the pimps who live on their earnings, has nothing to say about the other subject raised by Wolfenden: the prevalence of homosexuality. The maximum ?2 ($5.60...