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In 1956, his anguished protest poem Howl ("I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness . . .") set the stage for the Beat scene. Since then, often unwashed yet somehow steeped in cleansing waves of culture, sometimes naked but never far removed from the whole cloth of bohemian and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Odd Man In: Allen Ginsberg in America | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

Sir: Why do researchers make such a confounded mystery of modern man's deteriorated capacity for interceding in the affairs of his neighbors [July 18]? Any adult over 30 knows most of the answers. The obvious villains are civilization, urbanization and specialization. Since the disappearance of the frontier, we...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 1, 1969 | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

Many Cape Kennedy engineers bring home the fail-safe attitudes necessary to their work. "These are intelligent, perfectionist males who are usually intolerant of the feelings of those around them," says Psychiatrist Burton Podnos, administrator of the local Mental Health Center. Absorbed all day in scientific precision, engineers are apt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communities: Life in the Space Age | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

A laundry workers' strike has caused much of Harvard's dirty linen to go unwashed this week. The strike, which began April 24, is affecting 63 companies in Boston, including Gordon Linen, the firm which supplies Harvard and Radcliffe.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Walkout Prevents Linen Deliveries | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

The Democrats have not exactly coddled Rafferty during the campaign. Cranston has refused to debate him, declaring: "He's a liar. How can you debate with a liar?" Democrats denounce Rafferty as a "racist" for calling the state's fair-housing law a "forced housing" act. With obvious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: TWO TOUGH FIGHTS FOR THE SENATE | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

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