Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crimson: To what extent do you visualize your writing in sound and what extent is the content of the words important...
Ginsberg: Content is visual because you see pictures. According to one of Kerouac's quotes in an essay called "The Essentials of Modern Prose": "don't stop to think of the words but to see the picture better." The sound is something I here in my ear. There are no rules to that, you've just got to like the sound of the words. I wrote a poem in China called "China Bronchitis." Immediately the title sounded funny because of the sounds. It has sort of a bee-boop sound, and the "a" sound in "China" goes together with...
...support Gov. Dukakis' bill," said Nancy A. Finklestein, president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA). She added that the association had influenced the proposal's content before it was made public, reportedly forcing the Governor to drop a proposal to increase the time for teachers-to receive tenure from three to five years...
...said that TIME's mistaken report that the information was actually part of Appendix B "aggravated" the defamatory interpretation they read into the disputed paragraph. But the judge had agreed with TIME on this point and had told the jury that the alleged libel did not center on the content of the appendix but rather on the substance of what TIME's paragraph said--namely, that Sharon discussed revenge with the Phalangists before they were sent into the camps...
Taylor's people realize that their behavior is circumscribed by customs, often the very ones they cherish most and work hardest to preserve. They also sense that they should not be too content with their restrictions; they want to understand more than their experience allows. In Promise of Rain, a father recognizes the moment when his youngest son, almost grown and increasingly remote, finds the path his life will follow: "I was 50, but I had just discovered what it means to see the world through another man's eyes. It is a discovery you are lucky to make...