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...There are three pictures of Gary Snyder in Scenes Along the Road. One shows him sitting cross-legged in his Berkeley hut with a bowl of tea cupped in his hands; another shows him when he's robed and sandaled, standing at the garden outside the hut. The caption under the picture is taken from Ginsberg's writing, dated September 9, 1955: "... a bearded interesting Berkeley cat name of Snyder, I met him yesterday (via Rextoyh suggestion) who is studying oriental and leaving in a few months on some privately put up funds to go be a Zen monk...
...trips abroad before Kerouac and Ginsberg returned to the United States to be famous after the publication of Howl. On the Road Evergreen Review No. 2, and The New American Poetry. The last picture in this final section, a picture of a sullen Kerouac in Tangier, has a caption below it that is prophetic: "At that time I sincerely believed that the only decent activity in the world was to pray for everyone, in solitude... At that very moment, the manuscript of On the Road was being linotyped for imminent publication and I was already sick of the whole subject...
...never write notes to newspapers. Hate young people, by and large. But . . . January 18th edition of the CRIMSON was just fine. More important. Carol Sternhell's funny-sad-wry "nostalgia" piece was a delight. To top it all off. the caption writer on the sports page deserves some kind of double-intended award...
...Just Old Friends?" was the caption the New York Daily News slapped on its front-page photo of Princess Margaret's Lord Snowdon and a slight bit of chic called Lady Jacqueline Rufus Isaacs having rather serious fun at a London party. For the past year, according to the News, Tony, 40, and Lady Jacqueline, 24, have been a steady twosome, and during his recent hospitalization (for a hemorrhoid operation), "it was Lady Jackie who visited him even more often than Margaret." Last week, as the rumors flew, sometime Fashion Model Jacqueline left England for Switzerland, sometime Fashion Photographer...
NINE months ago, Britain's 16-member Health Education Council launched a drive against unwanted pregnancies by distributing a controversial poster showing a melancholy male with one hand resting on his bulging abdomen. The caption read: WOULD YOU BE MORE CAREFUL IF IT WAS YOU THAT GOT PREGNANT? Now the Council has outdone itself. On the cover of 200,000 pamphlets that will be distributed to British high school and college students and local medical clinics later this month is a posed reconstruction of a 200-year-old engraving of Giacomo Girolamo Casanova, the 18th century courtier whose name...