Word: kerouac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...afraid of Mao Tse-Tung or Arthur Schlesinger, 'cause I'm straight Catholic!" shouted Kerouac, who was fresh from a hearty Ford dinner...
...Kerouac said he thinks Emily Dickinson, James Joyce and T.S. Eliot were the greatest poets of the twentieth century, and Marcel Proust, Jean Genet and William Faulkner the greatest prose writers. But "Hemingway was nowhere. He wrote childish sentences, like Beckett does...
...Jack Kerouac presided over an evening of chaos in the Lowell House Junior Common Room last night. As members of the House's tutorial staff flitted about worriedly, the author of On the Road, The Subterraneans, and a dozen other books read poems, offered observations, and sometimes just snorted...
...Kerouac was drunk, but quite coherent. As students pulled the screens off the windows to get in, he traded gibes with Desmond O'Grady, the Irish poet of Adams House, and suggested that O'Grady should give the reading himself...
VISIONS OF GERARD, by Jack Kerouac. With this story of a big, noisy family of French Canadians in the mill town of Lowell, Mass., Beat Author Jack Kerouac joins J. D. Salinger in the small company of current writers who suggest that a child can be not only innocent but a prism of grace...