Word: petersburg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time. Kerouac's vision was compounded of Buddhism, booze (of all bourgeois things) and a chaotic lowlife that he worked into exuberant underground literature. When he wrote of casual sex or marijuana, they were still exotic and forbidden fruits. At the end, he was living in geriatric St. Petersburg, Fla., dutifully looking after his ailing mother...
RUSSIA, HOPES AND FEARS by Alexander Werth. 352 pages. Simon & Schuster. $6.95. The fear is a return "to some fiendish kind of Stalinism." The hope is the liberalization of Soviet society. But Werth, who escaped St. Petersburg as a boy and later served in Moscow as a French correspondent, examines recent Russian history with barely repressible optimism...
...PETERSBURG. Fla.- Jack Kerouac, author and pioneer of the beat generation, is dead...
Whose Man? At the school for the Corps of Pages in St. Petersburg, Princeling Kropotkin began to learn of the Byzantine rituals of the Romanov court -attendance at court balls, parades, mess dinners, the opera, blood horses, mistresses and some fashionable adultery. But at some stage something went sour. Was it when his father came back from a campaign with a medal for gallantry on his chest? It turned out that the deed that won the medal was actually performed by father's batman. The feudal father saw nothing odd about this. It was his man, wasn...
Back in St. Petersburg, Kropotkin was soon busy with pamphlets, manifestos, and interminable Russian discussions with a circle of students, workmen and intellectuals. He found the true faith and a false name-Borodin, the first of many. It was not long before he endured his first imprisonment and betrayal. Typically, while his colleagues scuttled out of town to escape the police, Kropotkin was caught because he felt obliged to keep his date with the local geological society to expound his theory on the ice cap. A weaver in his "circle" broke his alias to the police. There was no trial...