Lawrence Lipton

thumb| Lawrence Lipton (né Lipschitz; 1898 – July 9, 1975) was a Polish-born Jewish American journalist, writer, and Beat poet. He was the father of James Lipton. Quotes To the disaffiliate of the beat generation . . . the square is a summer from squareville. He sees him as a dupe — or a victim — of the rat race. . . . He is probably someone who is driving a three-thousand-dollar car to a sixty-five-dollar-a-week job — after withholding and deductions. He is fed up, perhaps, with the middle-class culture bit and is looking for something more satisfying than quiz programs, radio opera and South Pacific. Maybe he's a step farther out. He goes in for bucket chairs and shipping-crate modern architecture. He reads his Time from back to front, and "The Talk of the Town" in The New Yorker. He may even be having his first doubts about the neon chrome artyfake Disneyfication of America, but the chances are he still falls for the shell game swindle of "the highest standard of living in our history" while he tosses all night in debt-infested dreams. The Holy Barbarians (New York: James Messner, 1959), pt. 1, pp. 143–4 External links Category:Journalists from Poland Category:Immigrants to the United States Category:1898 births Category:1975 deaths