DOI: 10.25549/lipton-c108-195
title: 189. Lipton, Boyd, on compassion & love, [s.d.]; Kenneally interview of Lipton, [1958?]; "1489 words" (radio show), [1957-02-10]; Farber, Brattin poetry reading, [s.d.]

description: Tape 189, side 1) Lawrence Lipton and [Bruce?] Boyd discuss love and compassion, [s.d.] (0:16) [at 37:00 Lipton continues to record his thoughts on the subject without Boyd present], referencing Sanscrit, the arts, numenous experiences, Hebrew language, creating words, science and symbolism, word worshippers, Alfred Einstein (physicist), reality is the experience, the taste of olives, mathematics symbolism, Mitleid [pity], dreams, Suzuki, transendental intuition, John Donne, the sense of one's own species, Christianity, agape [agápē], angels, saints, Buddhism, Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, godesses, Carl Jung, opposites, becoming like god, mysticism, Linus Pauling (scientist), mental disorder, emotional effects on the physical body, molecules and atoms and electrons, mutations, heredity and genetics, the attributes of god, unprovables, Albert Blumberg (philosopher). ❧ Tape 189, side 2) Background for headlines (radio program), KNX News, KNX radio (CBS) Los Angeles, [ca. 1958] (0:02, 0:28), hosted by William Kenneally, on the renaissance of western literature and art, interviewing Lawrence Lipton; mentioned are: the lost generation, F. Scott Fitzgerald (writer), Ernest Hemmingway (writer), Pablo Picasso (artist), Doris Humphrey (dancer), Robinson Jeffers (writer), Henry Miller (writer), William Saroyan (writer), Clifford Odets (writer), Kenneth Rexroth (writer), Kenneth Patchen (writer), Lion Feuchtwanger (writer), Thomas Mann (writer), Bertolt Brecht (writer), Anaïs Nin (writer), Robert Frost (writer), W.H. Auden (writer), language, City Lights Bookshop (San Francisco), Arc (magazine), Lawrence Ferlinghetti (writer), Allen Ginsberg (writer), Gregory Corso (writer), Robert Duncan (writer), James Harmon (writer), Michael McClure (writer), Jack Kerouc (writer), Gary Snyder (writer), Madamoiselle (magazine), Richard Eberhart (writer), William Margolis (poet), Gil Orlovitz's The Statement of Erika Keith (book) and The Miscellaneous Man (journal), Leslie Woolf Hedley's Inferno (journal), James Boyer May's Trace (journal), Thomas McGrath (writer), Venice (Italy), Stuart Perkoff (writer), Bruce Boyd (writer), Charles Foster (writer), Charles Newman (writer), Julia Newman (writer), jazz, desegregation, A.S. Weiner (artist), Sydney Omarr's My Bed Has Echos (book), Gertrude Stein (writer), Jimmy Giuffre (musican), Shorty Rogers (musican), Shelly Manne (musican). Lester Koenig (record producer), Larry Thor (actor), Jean Howell (actor), William Conrad (actor), Jerry Goldsmith (composer), Nelson Algren (writer), dedicated poverty, disaffiliation from societal norms. Commercial: Ed Sullivan on Mercury automobile contest (0:05). ❧ "1489 words", CBS Radio Workshop, episode 54 (radio program), [1957 February 10], with William Conrad reading poetry, all with music by Jerry Goldsmith, produced by William N. Robson: "The highwayman" by Alfred Noyes (14:11) [incomplete], "Sonnet 43. From the Portuguese" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (19:56), "The thunder of imperial names" from Of Time and the River (book) by Thomas Wolfe (22:36), "Silence" a Japanese tanka (30:56). ❧ Danny Farber reading many of his very small one- or two-line poems (32:08), "You didn't get them" (39:28). Bunney Brattin reading her poetry: "The saint same of our love burns weekly" (35:37), "For Milton" (36:59), "When the penis hangs by a mutilated shred" (38:48) [s.d.]. -- TIMES indicate where sections begin.