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kerouac vs. amis in new york debatehaving to make it into a poem. I am convinced that ethical values will re-emerge. What gives meaning to life is the survival of these values. It is a sad thing for America that this beat generation is supposed to represent rebellion and unorthodoxy. After listening tcvKerouac I understand less about what they stand for than before.. . . There is no valor in their (the beats’) kind of flight and irresponsibility.”ASHLEY MONTAGU (Princeton anthropologist, author of “Immortality” and “Man: the First MillionYears,” white-haired, calm slightly amused, and slightly sleepy-lookingjust the way the Ladies League thinks a professor should look):“James Dean symbolized the beat(Continued on page six)cals of my generation. Much of what has happened in the past 20 or so years has challenged my basic beliefs, but I still adhere to them. (Turning to Kerouac): Life is complicated enough withoutkerouac to amis: ‘hello, my dear’Kingsley Amis had this to say about his first meeting with Jack Kerouac:“Mr. Kerouac had a rather nervous and excitable disposition and was rather anxious to feel that all those around him were well-disposed to him.'There I was sitting back, waiting for Mr. Kerouac to be funny, but somehow he neverquite got there, though he dida lot of shaping up to be funny ... 50 minutes of it in fact.”Amis said that when introduced to Kerouac, the “On The Road” author replied: “Hello,my dear.”Photo by Gin BriggsKerouac Clowns(Continued from page four)has opened a branch in England, or at least made an alliance with a group called The Angry Young Men.’ Thus a Detroit critic says: 'America’s angry young men are called the beat generation.’ Isthere a group of young English writers united and unique in protesting about creative stagnationin contemporary life? No, emphatically, no. The Angry Young Men’ is an invention of literary middlemen, desperate journalists who thrive on classifications and cliches, who put writers in pigeon holes and save people the trouble of reading. This nonsense can also be traced to the Anglo-American cult of youth. In England, anybody who writes and is under pensionable age is,put under the title of AYM. Any day I expect to see Boris Pasternak so labeled. Yes, Osborne is angry, that’s his privilege. But all the English writers who have been so categorized are doing what writers have always done—they are going about the job of writing. There is no Angry Young Men movement. There may be a beat generation, but I doubtJAMES WECHSLER (editor of the New York Post and author ofon the Campus,” looking angry if not young, vigorously chewing his gum with open-mouthed liberal sincerity, staring at Kerouac with incomprehension whenever Jack mentioned God.or the Cross): “I am one of the few unreconstructed radi-
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