Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author Lipton, a minor poet and novelist (Rainbow at Midnight, In Secret Battle), is well situated to serve as middleman between the beatniks and the squares. He owns a necktie, and he lives in a seaside slum of Los Angeles called Venice West, which is as cool and beat as a mentholated eggnog. Lipton himself is not really beat, but because of his advanced age (58) and full refrigerator, he is allowed to serve as Big Dada to the tribe...
...About a modern, grey-flannel Job reduced to sackcloth. Poet Archibald MacLeish's language and logic are on the cloudy side, but the evening is radiant with theatrical excitement...
...Touch of the Poet. The late Eugene O'Neill weaves a spell of sorts out of his favorite notion-illusions are the staff of life...
Bill Everson learned about religious anarchy at a camp for conscientious objectors during the war. When that was over, his marriage on the rocks, he joined the group of creative and not-so-creative bums around Poet Kenneth Rexroth that began the "San Francisco renaissance." before Beatniks Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg came out from Manhattan and put the movement in the news. "I'm pre-beat," says Brother Antoninus...
...Poet Archibald MacLeish's Pulitzer-prizewinning play about Job in the guise of a modern American businessman. The language and the logic are a trifle threadbare, but the evening is richly cloaked in theatrical excitement...