139. Interviews of Lipton by Norman [1959-1960], Michaels [1959-09?], Garey, 1959-11-07

Tape 139, side 1, part A) Meet a Celebrity (radio program), [1959-1960], KFI radio, in which Beth Norman (0:07) interviews celebrities Rita FitzSimons (mother of Maureen O'Hara) [not present on audio], Dr. Ward G. DeWitt (author) and Florence Stark DeWitt (author) (0:53), Lawrence Lipton (author) (1:57), and Eric Nord (playwrite) to discuss various topics including whether true love can exist between a man and a woman of there is not mutual respect. Lipton discusses his book The Holy Barbarians, compares beatniks to the lost generation, moneytheism, love, squares, success. Credits: Bob Kerr (producer), Harry Golan (engineer). ❧ Tape 139, side 1, part B) Radio news program, [1959 September?] including a report by Pat Michaels (10:27) who interviews Lawrence Lipton regarding Eric Nord's banned script for the film The Hypnotic Eye (to be produced by Allied Artists); weather news (12:01); Nikita Khrushchev (Soviet premier) visiting Dwight Eisenhower (US president) in the United States (13:03); New York school integration (14:07); Los Angeles County first day of school (14:23) visiting with a second grade class at Gardiner Street School learning about dairy farms. Commercial: White Front Stores kitchen appliances (12:17). ❧ Tape 139, side 2) Sally Garey [?] interview of Lawrence Lipton, 1959 November 7 (0:02), for an article in the Valley State Sundial (San Fernando Valley State College (SFSC), Northridge, California) for an upcoming (1959 November 12) talk by Lipton at SFSC re Paul Gauguin, the beat generation philosophy, Lipton's The Holy Barbarians, poetry, Dwight Eisenhower "Saint Ike", Richard Nixon "Nick the knife", the defense industry "Murder Inc.", war "genocide", existentialism, Lipton's poem "Last act for a play by Jean Paul Sartre", art as a way of life, the melting pot, negrophobia, Ambrose Bierce, California as the Mediterranean coast, Mark Twain, church rituals, Paul Tillich, Reinhold Niebuhr, the obsolete god, Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl", Lipton's poem "End of the line", Isaiah, Jeremiah, religion, Zen, numinous, collectives vs. communities, political powers, William Shakespeare, Pablo Picasso, Michelangelo, labor and work, peace and brotherhood, Otto Weininger's concept "als ob", culture, reality, Søren Kierkegaard, Lipton's Rainbow at Midnight, over population, science and religion, "dedicated poverty", Peter Kropotkin, Karl Marx, mutual aid, communism, physical labor vs. mental labor, drug use in the beats vs. the squares, Jack Paar Show, the social lie, Jimmy Dean, Kennth Rexroth, Kenneth Patchen, Henry Miller, diseducation and reeducation, god, Albert Camus, Karl Jaspers, West Venice, Jack Kerouac, talent vs. leadership, Aristophanes, San Fernando State College lecture, Charles Van Doren, experimental poetry, nonconformity. -- TIMES indicate where sections begin.