Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SOMEONE said American poetry is divided into smoothies and shaggies. I'm a shaggy." So says a poet who has been a Christian Scientist, agnostic, anarchist and conscientious objector. Yet today he wears the white tunic and black scapular of a Roman Catholic Dominican lay brother. See RELIGION, Beat Friar...
...dear," says one of the creeps, "they are contacts with the heartbeats of a nation in decay." Among the heartbeatniks: Bummy Car-well (Larry Hagman), incipient novelist ("I'm a writer-I'm out there on the periphery handling unexploited materials"); Danny (Thomas Aldredge), a marijuana-fueled poet who mumbles about the "crypto-neo-reactionaries"; and Yogi (Del Close), a stubble-bearded anti-homosexual crusader who gets most of the show's laughs...
David D. Robbins '59 has won first place in the Bowdoin Prizes for Undergraduates (English), with an essay entitled "Mysticism and the Poet's Development in Four Quartets," Dean Bundy's office announced yesterday...
...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...
...Poet Archibald MacLeish has retried Job in the guise of a modern American businessman. A little thin in eloquence and logic, but richly exciting theater...