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...said he would not shave until the Viet Nam War was over, Ginsberg insisted that "it has nothing to do with anything conceptual." Speaking sedately, as befits an elder statesman, even of the counterculture, Poet Ginsberg announced that he was making some recordings: William Blake in an album of mantra chants. "I don't suppose anyone will make any money on it," Ginsberg said resignedly. "It's of no great importance to anyone...
...their encounters with him-sometimes momentous, sometimes amusing. It is hard to imagine many Senators, for example, receiving "Hare Krishnas" from Allen Ginsberg. Kennedy did just that. "I pulled out a little harmonium and sang through two choruses," Ginsberg recalls. "He stayed to listen. The 'Hare Krishna' mantra was more important than the whole conversation. So he stood there, and I sang for a minute and then quit." Kennedy was less patient with Poet Robert Lowell's insistent recitation of The Education of Henry Adams-and finally retreated to the toilet. Lowell indignantly recalled the Sun King...
...place which is essentally nowhere; they entertain or bore one another; they sit. Like the street people who haunt the Square because there's no place for them to go, Vladimir and Estragon have internalized inevitability of inactivity. "Nothing to be done," when incanted as often as a mantra, can be cerily comforting. The dilemma of two tramps, waiting for a man who will not come, is our dilemma, too. And we remain waiting because the possibility of meaning, or of reason, or of order, is so seductive. If there were a Godot he would be here with...
...televised press conference on the eve of the Washington demonstration, the President looked understandably weary and nervous. Outside the White House gates, students were already gathering. They filled the warm evening with the refrain of the John Lennon mantra: "All we are saying is give peace a chance." Inside, the President told the press and the nation: "Those who protest want peace. I know that what I have done will accomplish the goals that they want. I agree with everything they are trying to accomplish...
...Hare Krishna," intoned Allen Ginsberg. "Hare Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Hare, Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama." The Hindu mantra worked no spell at all on peppery Judge Julius Hoffman, in whose federal courtroom the bushy-bearded poet was appearing as a defense witness in the Chicago conspiracy trial. When the judge protested that he did not even know what language the guru was using, Ginsberg explained that it was Sanskrit. "Well," huffed Hoffman, "we don't allow Sanskrit in federal courts." Hare, Hare...