Word: stuffs
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Agents for the big tour are New Directions, which, scant days ago, saw fit to publish Kenneth Patchen in the New Classics series (along with Conrad, Kafka, West and Stein), and Cadence Records, which celebrates this signal event with the release of an LP of Patchen reading his stuff to the Chamber Jazz Sextet, jouant. Despite the fact that much of the poetry in the book is lousy, the effect of the two-part package is invigorating...
Lots and lots of Patchen is pretty erotic: sex cooked well. Here's where the world looks good, where all is clean and warm and endless. If the particular "not wholly unrewarding hour" you choose suits, his erotic stuff will appeal; yet it so much celebrates obvious things badly that it is tedious...
...best characteristics of written Patchen is his vitality, one of the worst features of spoken Patchen is his boredom. It's surprising because before hearing him read you'd think he was jumping all over the place while writing his stuff. The choice of poems on the record is a good one, largely because he leans on the chuckle-chuckle side and forgets this country's inevitable American woe. All of the "Limericks" are included, and they sound just as good, and maybe better, than they read...
...investigative heyday of the late Joe McCarthy hummed in a packed, green-walled hearing room on Capitol Hill last week. The quaintly named House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight was scheduled to air revelations about the Federal Communications Commission, and massed advance leaks to the press had hinted at sensational stuff, including a "criminal felony." Also reminiscent of the McCarthy period was the doomsday rumble in the voice of Subcommittee Counsel Bernard Schwartz. By week's end intense, brilliant Lawyer Schwartz, 35, New York University Law School professor and author of seven published books on law, had proved...
...Running as usual only to win, Ireland's Ron Delany at the Boston Garden won his 18th consecutive indoor mile. Delany, who has the stuff to outsprint just about every mile record on the books, was perfectly satisfied to finish in 4:05.3, far in front of the pack...