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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...works of the Beat literati have been interesting, let alone readable. Easy Living, at least, is comprehensible, but the hippies who hop in and out of the beds Zane has made for them are, on the whole, lifeless forms. Rarely to they seem human; often they seem to be nothing more than sex machines. One more pot of hashish or an additional romp in the love bed could not save the book. Zane's monsters no doubt have read their Henry Miller carefully and know their cues perfectly. Only their performances are shoddy, awkward, and deserving of the stage manager...
...free and the bourgeoisie, certainly implies a moral judgment that leads us to ask why Steiner is justified in rejecting those social regulations which transform the chaotic into the orderly, or in condemning those who seem to be more principled and responsible than himself. No matter how often we ask, however, Zane leaves us in a moral haziness, which leads us in turn to suspect that he doesn't know how to solve the moral dilemma he has generated. Perhaps this is because he has known too well these strange people, because he has been too long in their strange...
...four days' stay in picturesque San Francisco was for us a real maelstrom. We tried to cut down the frenzied tempo, which interfered with our chance to make a thorough acquaintance with the life of America, but we were not often successful...
...article by Anatole Valiuzhenich which appeared in Ogonek concerning the U.S.-U.S.S.R. cultural exchange strikes me as accurate in some respects, but definitely below the belt in intent. As a group we were often disorganized and politically naive, especially the evening at Moscow University described in the article...
Under the current system, reserve books circulate for use outside the library only after 9 p.m. Too often, the library staff feels, students borrow these books early in the morning and hide them somewhere in the stacks during the day to be sure of having a book overnight...