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...strongest, most durable voice belonged to Allen Ginsberg, whose poem Howl was taken up as the Beat manifesto. The tribal saga was Jack Kerouac's On the Road, a novel that celebrated, among other things, the nation's interstate highway system...
...Ginsberg and Kerouac were both Easterners who attended Columbia University and then hit the road in search of direct experience and spontaneity. They found it personified in Neal Cassady, a Denver reform-school graduate and car thief with a gift of gab and sexual electricity that connected with the boys as well as the girls. Cassady and Ginsberg became lovers while Kerouac embraced Cassady's bebop monologues as part of his own prose style. Dean Moriarty, the hero and mobile savage of On the Road, is Neal Cassady right down to his pedal foot. "He was," wrote Kerouac early...
Well, not so unattainable as they used to be. After near extinction in the 1960s and '70s, ballroom dancing has waltzed back into fashion. "Almost every romantic comedy movie I've seen lately has a ballroom-dance scene," observes Hilary Ginsberg, co-owner of New York City's Roseland, with one of the largest dance floors in the world. Across the land, nightclubs are revising their programs to meet the demand for a place to swing, mambo, tango or waltz. Business at private dance studios is booming, with an estimated 600,000 students signing up for lessons this year...
Harvard places "much too much importance" on thesis writing, and that "if you don't write a thesis, your major doesn't seem to count," says Ginsberg, an East Asian Language and Civilizations (EALC) concentrator...
Other non-honors seniors share Ginsberg's sentiment. "I feel like things [at Harvard] are geared toward those who write a thesis," says non-honors history concentrator Millard B. Rice '89. "The whole tutorial system climaxes with a thesis...