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 oOo ------- Message transféré ------- SAN FRANCISCO IN THE SIXTIES In January 1960 the San Francisco Examiner offered Kenneth Rexroth a job writing a weekly column. He accepted. The column proved popular enough that he was soon asked to do two and eventually three per week. was fired in July 1967 (apparently due to a controversial article he wrote about the American police).
During the last seven years I’ve been posting all of these columns, 50 years after their original appearance. They’re now all online at my website. Needless to say, they vary widely in topic and interest. Some offer dated, such as reviews of particular musical or theatrical performances. I think you will find, however, that his remarks about even the most ephemeral topics are full of amusing observations and perceptive
Here are just a few of the hundreds of different topics he treats :
Beckett and Ionesco In praise of amateur Shakespeare The Civil Rights movement The execution of Caryl Chessman The HUAC riot Merits and faults of the San Francisco Ballet Kabuki theater Chinese opera The Tao of fishing Japanese art Aida and Ornette Coleman Mathematical elegance and classic fiction An appeal for Kenneth Patchen Radio KPFA The Peace Corps The death of Hemingway Rigoletto and Coltrane Henry Miller Pablo Casals at the White House The San Francisco Mime Troupe Golden Gate Park Camping in the Sierras Igor Stravinsky The death of Marilyn Monroe The Cuban missile crisis Why not abolish Market Street ? Brecht’s philosophy The film Elektra Victor Serge’s Memoirs of a Revolutionary Diebenkorn at the De Young The Kennedy assassination H.L. Mencken The Coit Tower murals Tom Jones and The Ginger Man Ideas for replanning the city Charles Mingus Homosexuality Greeks and Buddhists in Afghanistan The Harlem riots Mysticism, ethical and chemical Wagnerian Tartuffery The fall of Khrushchev The Vatican Council The Mafia invasion of North Beach Proposals for Chinatown The assassination of Malcolm X Bob Dylan Cowboy diplomacy The strategy of peace Wine – French versus Californian The Watts riot The FSM Harassment in Haight-Ashbury Urban alienation renewal Marijuana LSD Marxism and the persistence of alienation The international cultural revolution Camouflaging the rape of the environment What I will miss in San Francisco [as he starts off on a nine-month trip around the world] The crises in Germany Wandering the streets of London The Amsterdam Provos Bolshevism as state capitalism The arts of Finland Sexual liberation in Denmark Wandering the streets of Paris The architecture of Gaudi The undergrounds in Spain Power struggle in Italy Tintoretto and the Painters of Venice The Italian Communist Party Ruins of ancient Greece Istanbul Iran’s “two culture” peril Afghanistan India’s political demoralization Buddhism and Hinduism in India Thai Buddhism
I plan to continue by posting all of Rexroth’s articles and columns for the San Francisco Bay Guardian (1967-1972) and San Francisco magazine (1967-1975). But meanwhile, you can now peruse the entire Examiner series here : http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/sfe
*********************************************************** and the Rexroth Archive (texts by and about the great writer and social critic Kenneth Rexroth). "Making petrified conditions dance by singing them their own tune." |
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