Volume 8, Number 10 · June 1, 1967
The Brother of Us All
By Roger Shattuck
Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters
Introduction, Prose Translations, and Notes by Wallace Fowlie
University of Chicago, 370 pp., $12.50
Rimbaud: A Critical Study
by Wallace Fowlie
University of Chicago, 280 pp., $6.50
If you happen to be on the right subscription lists, the mails have been delivering some extraordinary 'literature' to your address for the past year or so. It is sent out by recently established Institutes engaged in a campaign to correct the categories of our education and to undo and recombine the traditional disciplines of thinking and living. One organization in Chicago offering a curriculum of religious studies for adults describes courses in 'creative participation in civilization.' The phrase made me laugh on first reading—and then think again. One of the fancy illustrated brochures from California proposes 'More Joy: a Five-Day Workshop.' Life could be different; don't be left behind because of timidity or lack of the proper catalogue. The mood may even have sprung forth in Austin, Texas. I am writing these words in the eye of Flipped-Out Week on the university campus. It combines protest against the war in Vietnam with a tone of 'Mellow Yellow and all things gentle.' When outrage lies down thus with the pastoral, we and our institutions are taken unawares. Even the Presidential helicopter rasping overhead has a new sound.
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