Word: kerouacs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...writers, experience dwarfs imagination in importance. Even purveyors of fiction and screenplays mold real-life friends and family into characters. In the case of writers like Kerouac, novels are memoirs with the names changed. I have romantic images of the "research" that drives fine writing--images of the writer ambling down a narrow city street with a well-worn notebook in his back pocket. But I've upset friends before by referring to them in print. Ironically, to be honest about my life in print requires a certain callousness about the people I am closest...
Perhaps. It seems to me that his defense of canonization makes the debate simply an academic one among scholars who will use their own subjective criteria to determine what is "better." Bloom and his cronies will always decide Shakespeare and Austen are "better" than Kerouac and Toni Morrison...
...problem with the poster is that it required too much prior knowledge. To the poster's designer and Peninsula staffers, it was obvious that the poster's allusion to ugly stereotypes of Blacks (promoted by white heroes of the sexual revolution like the Jack Kerouac and the Paul Tillich) was an attempt to discredit those who have promulgated them. To others, it wasn't obvious, and that's Peninsula replaced the posters...
...words "Spade Kicks" are an allusion to Jack Kerouac's novelOn the Road. Writing about his own experiences, Kerouac describes Denver's Black community...
...short, the speakers believe that this attitude, held by Kerouac and others comprising the white liberal eiite, prevented the implementation of plans to strenghten the Black family. The white-imposed stereotype of Black society as a paradigm of "sexual liberation"-the stereotype of "spade kicks," if you will-is the very thing Hardy and Jones blame for many of the problems Black Americans face today...