Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Justice Department during an anti-Viet Nam demonstration in Washington two months ago, Henry Braun hardly seemed to be risking a thing. He was married, had two children and, at 37, was two years above what he thought to be the draft age. This month Braun, a poet and an assistant English professor at Temple University, was reclassified from 5A (overage) to 1A. The move was a powerful one, since it made him eligible for conscription into military service...
What William James called the "rich thicket of reality" is thoroughly explored in this book, which is subtitled "Thoughts During a Useless Time." Its author, Paul Goodman, is a novelist, poet, essayist, psychologist and social critic whose book Growing Up Absurd gave him guru status with a large segment of American youth. Five Years is a self-analytical journal of random thoughts, jotted down from 1955 to 1960, when Goodman was between 45 and 50 years old. It is a ruthlessly honest confession in the manner of Rousseau: Goodman recounts how he scrounged for food, sex and love while materially...
John Hanbury Angus Sparrow, a congenital skeptic and distinguished Oxford don whose obiter dicta have em braced such disparate subjects as the Profumo Affair, Lady Chatterley and the plagiarisms of a 17th century Polish poet, last week published his scholar's evaluation of the Warren Commission Report and its critics. A Latinist, an attorney by training and, for the last 15 years, warden of All Souls College-one of the most eminent posts in British academe-wartime Guardsman Sparrow, 61, concluded empirically that the Warren Report on the assassination must stand and that the "demonologists" who so often attack...
...entries culled by Editor Maud show clearly the developing poet. He was only 15 when he started the first of the four notebooks he sold to the Lockwood, under 20 when he made the last entry in them, but from the very first they reflect both a fierce doubt about the worth of life and a fierce enthusiasm for it. "We are too beautiful to die," wrote the doubting adolescent, and soon he was noting that the beautiful die young (Thomas himself...
...surged through the rest of Manhattan playing antidraft tag with twice as many cops for four straight days. Greeted by freezing temperatures and the ominous rattle of police billies on the barricades, the demonstrators never managed to reach the main door of the center. Police allowed Dr. Benjamin Spock, Poet Allen Ginsberg and Author Susan Sontag, among others, to sit-in symbolically on the cold stone steps, then just as symbolically arrested them...