Word: longer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that accolade? Allen Ginsberg? Bob Dylan? John Lennon? No; a German raveler of spiritual mysteries named Hermann Hesse, who died in 1962 at 85. His champion was Thomas Mann, and he was reflecting the impact of Hesse's 1919 novel, Demian, on German youth. Today Hesse is no longer so ardently esteemed in his native country, but in the past decade in the U.S. he has steadily risen to the status of a literary cult figure. College students rank him in the pantheon of literary gurus with Dostoevsky, Tolkien and Golding. In hippie hovels, those of his novels already...
...keeps the relationship between the two books vague, but the almost autistic state of mind and the prose-voice in both are nearly identical. It is the flat, emotionless tone of the survivor whose shattering experiences have set him outside the conventional boundaries of the human race. No longer capable of giving or receiving compassion, the victim-the painted bird-has survived and grown into a bird of prey that thrives on acts of voyeurism, cruelty and revenge...
...room trying, impossibly, to remain inconspicuous. Baker--chalk skin set off beneath dull orange hair, black motorcycle jacket, high heeled boots and fingers almost hidden in silver and gold rings. Clapton in blue velvet pants, white silk socks and patent leather buckle shoes. Brocaded vest and fingernails longer than a Japanese dowager's. At the other end of the room was Bruce, sullen and bored. He sat with his stubby fingers nervously drumming the edge of the chair. Alligator boots, knee-length leather riding jacket. Compressed nervous energy. Despite the awkwardness of the scene, they were generous with their conversation...
...asked him whether he realized that almost every aspiring rock guitarist in the country was aspiring rock guitarist in the country was aping his style. "Well, of course I'm flattered, but if that's true it's too bad because it'll take them just that much longer to get into their own thing...my own influences were from the Chicago school, especially B. B. King. But I was always searching for my own style." It seems he found...
Hill and the teachers of the UFT, is finding that these people no longer trust the government enough to leave their interests in its hands. Simply stated, New York has lost the consent of its governed...