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Word: readings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 30, 1959 | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 30, 1959 | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beatniks Corso, Ginsberg Howl Before New Lec Crowd | 3/27/1959 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beatniks Corso, Ginsberg Howl Before New Lec Crowd | 3/27/1959 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poetry Reading | 3/26/1959 | See Source »

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