Word: howlings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bach to Balinese. It plays anything from Bach to esoteric jazz. There have been concerts on the Royal Watusi drums, and by the Balinese Gamelan Orchestra. Drama ranges from Eumenides to Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, poetry readings from Robert Frost to Allen (Howl) Ginsberg, lecturers from former Amherst President Alexander Meiklejohn to Alan Watts, expert on Zen Buddhism. Once a week Russian Specialist William Mandel reports for 15 minutes on what Russians are being told by their newspapers and magazines. No cause is too controversial to get a hearing. Example: KPFA gave air time to Congressman Robert Condon to defend himself...
...board's new policy holds up, it may affect as many as 9,500 students-the i% of the school population estimated to be the hard-core punks. It raised a howl among some teacher and civic groups as "an act of desperation" and "an abject surrender to pressure," and there was talk that the policy might be challenged in the courts. Since the city is desperately short of means to keep rein on delinquents awaiting trial, some officials joined the critics in wondering whether the board was not merely turning them "right out into the streets...
Last month New York's nonresidents began to howl. It was the first real fuss since 1920, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a state may tax income earned by nonresidents so long as it is not discriminatory. Studies show that non-New York residents may be paying 45% more New York tax than residents with equal income and number of dependents. One big reason: out-of-state commuters may deduct only expenses directly connected with New York earnings. The great majority of them may claim only a flat 10% deduction on gross income or $500, whichever...
...universities and colleges that are always crying for more money cut out 85% of the education courses and 98% of the journalism courses, they would save an enormous amount of money and at the same time advance knowledge. Of course, howls going up would make the mountaintops rock. The superfluous always howl when their milk is cut off. For the academic year of 1957-58, the education department of the University of Texas lists 351 courses. They are all to make teachers more banal-minded. God pity your pupils; don't blame them for not being educated. What...
Both stories, as with so much undergraduate, or for that matter graduate (i.e., New Yorker) writing today, depend heavily on understatement, although Nash's understatement, paradoxically, is often prolix. The supreme achievement, however, is Arthur Freeman's poem "Whew": in a satire of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl", he has managed to get the muse of the Beat Generation for once to understate herself. This is no mean accomplishment...