Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have read your article on the castle builder and fence-sitting theologian, Paul Tillich, and I must say that you did an excellent job about this man of whom I have a slight knowledge. It is astonishing how much material you brought in, partly by direct, partly by indirect communication. I think your presentation of his system was as clear as it could be, and the personal sections are as rich and warm as they could be. I heard that Mr. Tillich has received many congratulations about the article...
Farm automation: most depressing thing I have ever read. I shall retire with my Currier & Ives, and memories of barefoot childhood, scrunching behind fresh furrows, and the excitement of discovering eggs in the corners of the barnyard...
Garbed in the extremely informal attire which has become their trademark, Mr. Corso and Mr. Ginsberg read extensively from alternately long and short poems, with Mr. Corso showing a much stronger tendency towards humor in his writing than did Mr. Ginsberg. The latter, to the considerable surprise of most of the audience, which had come in search of a sideshow, was an unexpectedly "serious" poet, especially in the long prose poem, Kaddish, and in the well-known Howl with which he ended his reading...
...Orlovsky did not say a word during the entire reading, and it was only during the question period that, upon the urging of the audience, he read three of his short poems...
Alan Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Peter Orlovsky will read "Howl and Other Poetry" at 8 p.m. tonight in New Lecture Hall. The program will be sponsored by the Harvard Poetry Forum and the Law School Forum...