Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JOAN (Vanguard). Joan Baez, with her arranger Peter Schickele (of P.D.Q. Bach fame), has provided one of the most satisfying recordings of the year. She sings songs by some of today's greatest poet-musicians, most of whom are actually-and inaccurately-typecast as rock singers: McCartney and Lennon's Eleanor Rigby, Paul Simon's Dangling Conversation, and Tim Hardin's If You Were a Carpenter. But a French song, titled La Colombe (The Dove), provides the most haunting impact, for it is a beautifully put plaint against the slaughter of wars...
...manic task. Originally it was planned for Capitol Hill, but the Mob ended by adopting Rubin's suggestion that the Pentagon would be a more inviting and symbolic target. As rallyers offered their services, the committee divided them into 22 contingents, ranging from notables (Spock, Mailer, Poet Robert Lowell) to a Vietnamese contingent. A hippie outfit calling itself Wagon Wheels East purportedly set out from California replete with Shoshone Indians, trail scouts and medicine men ("compliments of Chief Rolling Thunder"), plus "junk cars, stolen buses, motorcycles, rock bands, flower banners, dope, incense and enough food for the journey...
...another entrance Dr. Spock, Dellinger, writer Dwight Macdonald, M.I.T.'s Noam Chomsky, poet Robert Lowell '37, Mrs. Dagmar Wilson of Women's Strike for Peace, comedian Dick Gregory and about 20 other notables were being hemmed in by soldiers as they sat arguing about the war in a one-sided conversation with the troops. The troops kicked and shoved them, and they were scared. Finally, after holding Spock and friends captive for over an hour, the soldiers moved back. Dellinger and several others were arrested...
There is a strong poem written by a black poet and it is a poem from which I would like to read to you. The name of the poem is DEMOCRACY. The man who wrote the poem was Langston Hughes. He speaks of the white people who tell him to go slowly. He says this is a thing he cannot do. His people are dying. His life has been a prison. His skin has marked him forever as a man who was not free to live and breathe. He is not sure what Democracy should mean--but he knows...
...fear is the show itself. Syndicated in 15 U.S. cities since September, Outrageous Opinions takes on one guest at a time for half an hour, five days a week. The key subject, of course, is sex, but Mistress Brown cannot always make her guests come across. Norman Mailer, poet laureate of the orgasm, explained that he had come on the program to plug his new book. "I thought we were going to talk about ideas," he said coyly...