123. Lipton interviews (UCLA & CBS), 1960-01-24

Tape 123, side 1) Interview (0:15) of Lawrence Lipton by a University of California Los Angeles student for a psychology class term paper on the beat generation and beatniks, also on Lipton's book Lost Generations, impressionism, Robinson Jeffers, Wallace Stevens, Paul Gauguin, the Gas House, the holy barbarian, Mette Gad, Tahiti, Werther, Faust, marriage, revolt against respectability and materialism, disaffiliation vs. revolt, the arts, everything is relative, immorality, legality, an ethic, living in the moment, orgastic vs. estetic vs. poetic, Jack Kerouac. ❧ Tape 12, side 2) Phil Gittleman, for CBS radio network, interview (0:01) of Lawrence Lipton, Venice West, California, on the beat generation, 'art is love is god', 'only poets can make a world that is fit to live in', (interrupted by a telephone call (4:46)), 'murder incorporated', unemployability, the poetic ethic, 'not looking for a revolution but rather a revelation', happiness, what is the use of planning under threat of the bomb, nonconformity, meaning in life, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Henry David Thoreau, Jesus Christ, 1960 January 24. -- TIMES indicate where sections begin