”The Case Against the United States”
(Nugget Magazine, 1963)
“A very angry Canadian firebrand hurls some painful truths at the smug belief we have in our own greatness.”
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Howard Hughes
(Nugget Magazine, 1957)
“Howard Hughes (1905 – 1976) works as Edison worked – hard. Hughes possesses much of Edison’s inventive genius. In the public eye it is Hughes’ Cassanova role which stands out, but if Hughes was only a rich collector of escapades, he would no more merit serious serious examination than Tommy Manville… The late novelist Rupert hughes, Howard’s uncle, once remarked when asked why he would not talk to his famous nephew: “When I get down on my knees I can talk to God, but not to Howard Hughes.”
The Prophet of the Beats
(Nugget Magazine, 1960)
Howl is written, says Ginsberg, peering as he does through his glasses with a friendly intermingling of smile and solemnity, in some of the rhythm of Hebraic liturgy – chants as they were set down by the Old Testament prophets. That’s what it’s supposed to represent – prophets howling in the Wilderness. That, in fact, is what the whole Beat Generation is, if it’s anything, – howling in the Wilderness against a crazy civilization.