Word: corso
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GUARD he was using to prove his point was a weapon with a hair-trigger. The Ohio National Guard is the barony of Gen. Sylvester T. Del Corso, a former Army Colonel with the habit of keeping his office clock four hours fast. Del Corso appeared on televised hearings of the Scranton Commission last summer, sporting a complacent smile and carrying a large rock and a length of steel pipe which he claimed students had thrown at his men. Corso had achieved fame in Ohio before Kent by denouncing Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes as a tool of black revolutionaries...
...Ginsberg), the quotations, and the captions in Scenes: the book is published in a limited edition of 2000. (The Harvard Coop Bookstore has a small pile of copies available.) It's divided into three sections; the first focuses on Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Herbert Huncke, John Clellon Holmes, and Gregory Corso while they were living in New York just after World...
...says. "It is like telling someone what they must eat." He also stresses the growing influence of youth: "Paris still gives fashion authority. But today, fashion is born on the world's streets, in the East Village, and on the Left Bank, on King's Road and the Corso in Rome." He would be the first...
General Canterbury and his superior, Ohio Adjutant General Sylvester Del Corso, at first sought refuge in a flimsy excuse for uncontrolled gunfire. They said that their men had been fired upon by a sniper. By the end of the week, even Del Corso conceded that there was no evidence of any such attack...
...Kent, Ohio, Adj. General S. T. Del Corso said that he had no evidence to support his assertion Monday that a sniper fired at National Guardsmen before the troops shot and killed the four demonstrators at Kent State University...