Word: rexroth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ezra Pound's Cantos; and the New York school was surreal and Dadaistic, or more adamantly colloquial and hortative, as in Ginsberg's "Howl." But these distinctions tended to blur as the groups began influencing one another. Behind them, unifying them, were the established voices of Kenneth Rexroth, Kenneth Patchen, William Carlos Williams, and even old Walt Whitman, whose emotional, plain-speaking idiom came to be idolized by many of the new poets...
...later played at the Edinburgh and Venice film festivals. Then there was the channel's Where's Jim Crow?, a weekly segment rooting out covert discrimination in the area. And, for a change of pace, there is pro basketball, a talk show with Author Kenneth Rexroth, as well as William Buckley's Firing Line, a "how-to" series on such subjects as skin diving and sewing, live chamber concerts, and an engrossing experimental show that examines far-out topics-for example, the people who advertise for sex partners in the underground weeklies. That program is called Nothing...
...much-acclaimed study of the region. TIME-LIFE'S The Pacific States contains maps, travel and nature information, museum listings. Above all, it contains an account of "the restless edge of American society"-an edge that we at TIME have often explored. In his preface, Poet-Critic Kenneth Rexroth writes: "The inhabitants of the Pacific Coast are in the front rank of a world revolution that will make a far greater difference in human life than either the French or the Russian revolutions, or both of them together...
...AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL, by Kenneth Rexroth. With a cast of 1,000 people who are least likely to get into Who's Who, Kenneth Rexroth, last of the old bohemians, crams the stage of a crowded autobiography. Fortunately, the old political evangelist ceases to wave the flags of social revolt in favor of chronicling the reign of a minor king of the Big Rock Candy Mountain...
...AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL, by Kenneth Rexroth. With a cast of 1,000 people least likely to get into Who's Who, Kenneth Rexroth, last of the old bohemians, crams the stage of a crowded biography. Fortunately, the old political evangelist ceases to wave the flags of social revolt in favor of chronicling the reign of a minor king of the Big Rock Candy Mountain...