Monthly Archives: September 2021

Balanchine, the Teacher: ‘I Pushed Everybody’

Posted on September 30, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The setting is a ballet class, and the year is 1974. George Balanchine throws up his arms in exasperation at the sight of a dancer executing a step incorrectly at the barre. We may not be able to see her, … Continue reading →

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Broken Circle/Spiral Hill – Robert Smithson (1971)

Posted on September 29, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Broken Circle/Spiral Hill is an earthwork sculpture by the American artist Robert Smithson. It was created for the 1971 Sonsbeek outdoor sculpture exhibition. The piece is located in Emmen, Netherlands. Broken Circle/Spiral Hill is the sole large-scale earthwork piece created … Continue reading →

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Saint John Coltrane: The San Francisco Church Built On A Love Supreme

Posted on September 28, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Little of San Francisco today is as it was half a century ago. But at the corner of Turk Boulevard and Lyon Street stands a true survivor: the Church of St. John Coltrane. Though officially founded in 1971, the roots … Continue reading →

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The Will to Change: Poems 1968-1970 – Adrienne Rich

Posted on September 27, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“‘The Will to Change’ is an extraordinary book of poems and some thing else as well. It has the urgency of a prisoner’s journal: patient, la conic, eloquent, as if determined thoughts were set down in stolen moments. It takes … Continue reading →

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A Family for My Art: Poets at the American Place Theatre

Posted on September 26, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

W – Wynn Handman “In 1963, a small not-for-profit theater called the American Place Theatre was founded in St. Clements Church, a Victorian Gothic church tucked away in Manhattan’s Theater District. The theater was founded by the minister and actor … Continue reading →

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The Panic in Needle Park – Jerry Schatzberg (1971)

Posted on September 25, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Panic in Needle Park is a 1971 American romantic drama film directed by Jerry Schatzberg and starring Al Pacino and Kitty Winn. The screenplay was written by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, adapted from the 1966 novel by … Continue reading →

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The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin – William S. Burroughs

Posted on September 24, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“At a surrealist rally in the 1920s Tristan Tzara the man from nowhere proposed to create a poem on the spot by pulling words out of a hat. A riot ensued wrecked the theater. Andre Breton expelled Tristan Tzara from … Continue reading →

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When the Nobel Prize Committee Rejected The Lord of the Rings: Tolkien “Has Not Measured Up to Storytelling of the Highest Quality” (1961)

Posted on September 23, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“When J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings books appeared in the mid-1950s, they were met with very mixed reviews, an unsurprising reception given that nothing like them had been written for adult readers since Edmund Spencer’s epic 16th century English poem The Faerie Queene, perhaps. … Continue reading →

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I Called Him Morgan – Kasper Collin (2016)

Posted on September 22, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“I Called Him Morgan is a 2016 Swedish produced documentary film written and directed by Kasper Collin which gives an account of the life of and relation between jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan and his common-law wife Helen Morgan, later responsible … Continue reading →

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Clarke’s three laws

Posted on September 21, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke formulated three adages that are known as Clarke’s three laws, of which the third law is the best known and most widely cited. They are part of his ideas in his extensive writings … Continue reading →

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John Ashbery: On The Inside Looking In by Roger Gilbert

Posted on September 20, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Hudson: A gloom one knows. Dining room. “Some poets invite us into their homes. W. B. Yeats’s Thoor Ballylee and Robinson Jeffers’s Tor House figure prominently in their poetry while remaining coldly majestic edifices. Not so Gertrude Stein’s Paris apartment, … Continue reading →

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Everything you need to know about the Greenwich Village of 1961 in one map

Posted on September 20, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“‘Geographically speaking, the Village is only a small part of New York City,’ so states the copy on the side of this remarkable map of the Greenwich Village of 1961 (click the map to enlarge it), which details the restaurants, … Continue reading →

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Henry Miller: Hungry, Homeless, Happy

Posted on September 19, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“There’s only one historical figure I’ve ever come across who claimed he was hungry, homeless, and happy simultaneously. Given the brashness of his personality and his legacy, it is not surprising that it was Henry Miller who declared that these circumstances … Continue reading →

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Ken Kesey: One Who Wigged Out (May 1966)

Posted on September 18, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Where is novelist Ken Kesey? It has been months and still no word on him. Not since O. Henry, 70 years ago, has an American lit­erary figure taken it on the lam after getting into trouble with the law. O. … Continue reading →

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Popol Vuh

Posted on September 17, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Popol Vuh in 1971: Bettina von Waldthausen, Frank Fiedler, Florian Fricke “Popol Vuh were a German musical collective founded by keyboardist Florian Fricke in 1969 together with Frank Fiedler (sound design, fine cut), Holger Trülzsch (percussion), and Bettina Fricke (tablas and … Continue reading →

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Gaia hypothesis

Posted on September 16, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

The study of planetary habitability is partly based upon extrapolation from knowledge of the Earth‘s conditions, as the Earth is the only planet currently known to harbour life (The Blue Marble, 1972 Apollo 17 photograph) “The Gaia hypothesis /ˈɡaɪ.ə/, also … Continue reading →

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Fellini Satyricon- Federico Fellini (1969)

Posted on September 15, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Fellini Satyricon, or simply Satyricon, is a 1969 Italian fantasy drama film written and directed by Federico Fellini and loosely based on Petronius‘s work Satyricon, written during the reign of Emperor Nero and set in imperial Rome. The film is … Continue reading →

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The Life and Death of a Radical Sisterhood

Posted on September 14, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Judith Duffett, Cynthia Funk and Joyce Miller at a NYRW meeting. Nov. 2017: “In the fall of 1967, a small gang of women began meeting regularly in cramped apartments across the Lower East Side. At the time, the Civil Rights Movement … Continue reading →

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Attica Prison riot

Posted on September 13, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Inmates at Attica shouted their demands during a negotiating session with state corrections officials in September 1971. “The Attica Prison Rebellion, also known as the Attica Prison Massacre, Attica Uprising or Attica Prison Riot, was the bloodiest prison riot in … Continue reading →

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Anne Waldman and Ted Berrigan: Recovering ‘Memorial Day’

Posted on September 12, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Anne Waldman & Ted Berrigan “Today at PennSound we’re marking the Memorial Day holiday in a distinctly poetic way, by unveiling a long lost recording of Ted Berrigan and Anne Waldman’s ‘Memorial Day’ from a May 5, 1971 reading at … Continue reading →

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Sumer Is Icumen In: The Pagan Sound Of British And Irish Folk 1966-75

Posted on September 11, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“… Stonehenge, one of this island’s most significant structures, is constructed in alignment with the setting sun on that day. After the solstice, the days lengthen and a new cycle of the year begins. An image of what could be … Continue reading →

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Read It and Weep: Margaret Atwood on the Intimidating, Haunting Intellect of Simone de Beauvoir

Posted on September 10, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“How exciting to learn that Simone de Beauvoir, grandmother of second-wave feminism, had written a novel that had never been published! In French it was called Les inséparables and was said by the journal Les libraires to be a story … Continue reading →

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Mapping Resistance: The Young Lords in El Barrio

Posted on September 10, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“This past July, after thousands upon thousands of protestors flooded the streets of Puerto Rico calling for the ouster of former governor Ricardo Rosselló because of his administration’s offensive chat messages and a pattern of money laundering, conspiracy, and wire fraud, … Continue reading →

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RIP Jean-Paul Belmondo: The Actor Who Went from the French New Wave to Action Superstardom

Posted on September 8, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Mr. Belmondo in “Breathless.” His on-screen mannerisms became global signposts of rebellion. “For quite a stretch, the late Jean-Paul Belmondo was France’s biggest movie star. He also, in what now looks like the greater achievement, stubbornly remained the most French … Continue reading →

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Hip Capitalism Fails

Posted on September 7, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

March 14, 1968: Selling the underground press on Haight and Clayton. “By 1971 the original 1967 ambivalence among one element of hippie culture with the urban setting manifested itself in what I call the Long March to Tennessee, led by … Continue reading →

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A Household of Minor Things: The Collections of Robert Duncan and Jess

Posted on September 6, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Jess, The Enamord Mage: Translation #6, 1965. “Jess and Robert Duncan pursued separate artistic paths—the former as a visual artist, the latter as a poet, though each experimented with the other’s chosen medium. Jess, who had a lifelong interest in … Continue reading →

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Electric Ladyland – Jimi Hendrix Experience (1968)

Posted on September 5, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Electric Ladyland is the third and final studio album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience and the final studio album released in Hendrix’s lifetime before his death in 1970. Released by Reprise Records in North America on October 16, 1968, and … Continue reading →

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Eduardo Galeano – Soccer in Sun and Shadow

Posted on September 4, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“And Eduardo Galeano‘s book seems to reverberate that sentiment, though in much spectacular detail. ‘Soccer in Sun and Shadow‘ is easily the most beautiful book written on the Beautiful Game in every respect. Beauty lies in simplicity & the joy … Continue reading →

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“Hey, Hey, LBJ…”: President Lyndon Baines Johnson in Poster Art: 1962 – 1968

Posted on September 3, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

David Levine. Pen and ink. 1966. “On December 1, 2009, in an address to the nation delivered from the United States Military Academy at West Point, President Obama announced the sending of an additional 30,000 U.S. combat troops to Afghanistan … Continue reading →

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Post-painterly abstraction

Posted on September 2, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Morris Louis, Alpha-Phi (1961) “As a rebellion against the gestural and painterly approach of numerous Abstract Expressionists, term post-painterly abstraction was coined to help define the variety of styles which came forth. In 1964, the author of the term, critic … Continue reading →

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By the Sound – Edward Dorn (1965)

Posted on September 1, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“One of the things the novel can and often does do for its readers is to extend their range of sympathy, to make them see with a new clarity groups of people that might otherwise be forgotten except in statistical … Continue reading →

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