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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LIFE AMONG THE SURREALISTS, by Matthew Josephson (403 pp.: Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $6). Matthew Josephson roared through the '20s like the New Culture Special, stopping here for some Dada nihilism, there for surrealistic analysis and along the way meeting up with Andre Breton, Louis Aragon, Max Ernst, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Malcolm Cowley, Katherine Anne Porter and Hart Crane. With these qualifications, his memoirs might be expected to say something significant. But although his anecdotes are amusing and interesting, they are only dimly illuminating. Somehow the fact that Hart Crane was a drunk and had a penchant for throwing...
Back home in Pound, Va., townspeople were planning a welcoming ceremony to be held after Powers' release from Georgetown University Hospital, where he was sent for a physical examination. Having passed all his other tests, Powers was free to remain in the CIA if he wished, free to collect some $50,000 in back pay. Asked how he would spend it, Powers replied: "Slowly." Then he disappeared into a waiting Government car-leaving behind him a persistent feeling that some of his story remained untold...
...home in Pound, Va., a mountain of mail accumulated for Powers, everything from anonymous threatening letters to offers of large sums of money for writing articles and books. But any writing and any talking that Powers undertakes will be under the strict surveillance of the Government; like all former spies, he will be censored and controlled, at least partly, in everything he says or writes for the rest of his life. From Powers' hideaway came word, so far unconfirmed by officials, that he has been offered his old Air Force job, with a major's commission...
...change in poetry's style and content, a vigorous evolution that may yet become the second great poetic revolution of the century. The first revolution, which rolled over the language during the decade beginning in 1910, was an American revolution, a revolt of the vernacular launched by Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and Robert Frost-all of them still alive and writing, but not writing much. In the early '30s, the heirs of the revolution, led by Britain's W. H. Auden, turned to what Poet Archibald MacLeish called the "invocation to the social muse...
...next office is piled high with current literature. More than 400,000 pieces of literature have been distributed from this room in the last six months. A clerk hands the visitor a seven-pound sample...