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...Anne Ginsberg, one member of the club, said this week that she enjoys late night practices. "I'm usually dead at 10:30, so I'd rather play soccer than try to make myself work," she said...
...liner notes to the album, Allen Ginsberg describes Dylan's singing in One More Cup of Coffee as "Hebraic cantillation," and indeed as Dylan chants the first verse of the song, you can imagine him as a cantor in a local synagogue chanting the Song of Songs...
Desire begins with a brief glimpse of the "real" Dylan, and so it ends, with Sara and the revelation that he wrote Sad-eyed Lady of the Lowlands for her. (Dylan will still play the game, though; Nat Hentoff reports that when Ginsberg asked Dylan for confirmation that the song was written for his wife, Dylan solemnly reminded him that Sara is the name of one of the Old Testament judges.) In the earlier song, as in One More Cup of Coffee, he could only approach her through her attributes--thus, the proliferation of possessives (your mercury mouth...your eyes...
...Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a residue of that mid-sixties sentiment. Like the button it makes a sick kind of sense, though its message is, finally, silly and, in a simplistic way, evil. Only under flower-child aegis (Kesey's book was celebrated by Tom Wolfe, Allen Ginsberg and other gurus) could a 1975 audience be fed such sexist, crypto-fascist garbage. In the end, it's nothing more than pop psychology on the level of a counter-cultural Reader's Digest. Unless people take it seriously, in which case it's nearly criminal...
...cherished him during his 44 years in the Columbia English department tried to recapture the elusive qualities of a great teacher. Commentary Editor Norman Podhoretz, once awed by "the witchlike precision" of Trilling's mind, said that he was "an intellectual father." Added Beat Generation Poet Allen Ginsberg: "He had a sweet heart, a sad, solemn sweetness." Columbia Professor Emeritus Jacques Barzun, who collaborated with Trilling for 36 years in a course on cultural history, admired the way "his thoughts progressed in a rational manner from beginning to end." A student who took that Barzun-Trilling course remembers most...