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...Beat Generation of writing is forget it. Some curly new hair is coming up in Beardsville. The new boys still haven't found a name-The Camp Crowd? The Hallucinogeneration?-but they have brattishly proclaimed their principal preoccupations: LSD, pot, the Spirit of Berkeley, californication, and not fighting in Viet Nam. While there are only a few of them, they have begun to produce a noisy literature that confesses its mongrel origin in the cult of hip, the theater of the absurd, the works of Jack Kerouac, the pop art movement and some of the more deplorable traditions...
BEEN DOWN SO LONG IT LOOKS LIKE UP TO ME, by Richard Fariña (Random House; 329 pages; $5.95), is a pot-and-peyote boiler about a supercooled campus hippie named Gnossos Pappadopoulis. Written by the brother-in-law of Folk Singer Joan Baez, the book is fashionably half-coherent, a collection of Kerouacky kinks. Gnossos turns on four times a day, calls girls "man," says "dig" a great deal, makes like the Green Hornet with cringing officials at Mentor University, rucksacks triumphantly to Mexico, Las Vegas and Cuba, knows how to hot-wire a car, plays Corelli...
...urge to call someone arises, "there should be someone more appropriate to phone than your mother, your ex-girl, your psychiatrist, or the President." Miss Bieberman also has things to sell, such as synthesis procedures at 25c each for LSD, mescaline, psilocybin, and DMT and "Let's Legalize Pot" buttons for 15c each...
...Amherst men are trying to cope with still another problem, but again with blankets." When going to Wesleyan, pack "knee socks, saltines (they never feed you) and a guitar." At Williams, beware of "the woods and the steam tunnels under the school." At Columbia, "be prepared for plenty of pot, plenty of existentialism and plenty of Susan Sontag...
...widely respected Hamengku Buwono IX, the Sultan of Djokjakarta, in charge of economic, financial and developmental affairs. Back in the government, though not in the top rank, was General Abdul Haris Nasution, dumped by Sukarno as Defense Minister in February in a move that set the Indonesian political pot aboiling. With Suharto, impassive in open-necked khaki uniform, at his side, Sukarno himself announced the new presidium, claimed the new government would operate strictly on his direction...