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...crowd of 20--somewhat less than the 1000 expected--turned out at South Station to greet poet Kenneth Rexroth as he arrived in Boston for a reading sponsored by the Advocate...
...group that waited in vain for Rexroth was a strange combination of disgruntled newsmen, baggage porters, little boys waiting for their mothers, and a few scattered students who vaguely fulfilled the epithet of beatnik...
Commenting on the poet's visit, Melnick said, "Rexroth's work is conclusive proof that genuine erudition is not incompatible with ideas of beat poetry. At this time especially, Harvard needs a visit from Kenneth Rexroth." Rexroth's last visit to Harvard was in 1948 in connection with the Morris Gray Reading Fund...
...crowd--"mostly beat types"--will then carry the mustached Rexroth on their shoulders from the station to Beacon Hill's Louisburg Square, where he will read one of his revolutionary poems, Blair said. Rexroth will give a reading sponsored by the Harvard Advocate in Sanders Theater tomorrow night...
According to Blair, 700 from the Greater Boston area, including students from B.U., B.C., and Brandeis are expected, along with approximately 300 from Cambridge. Burton A. Melnick '62, president of the Advocate, said that he also expected students demonstrating against Rexroth to be on hand...