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...elsewhere in the States, rock is currently in the midst of a huge syncretic surge toward a new idiom-and the Beatles' wildly eclectic spirit hovers over it all. As the Lovin' Spoonful's songwriter, John Sebastian, says: "Here we are in the middle of the mulch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Music: The Messengers | 9/22/1967 | See Source »

...play to special audiences, and it is continuous. Recalls Professor Cedric H. Whitman, a colleague in the Classics Department: "I hadn't seen John in a year. Then one day I met him on the street. His very first words to me were, 'Humanities 2 is like a mulch pile. Each year I throw in a few new ideas, and they sink down to the soil...

Author: By John D. Reed, | Title: John Finley | 2/21/1967 | See Source »

...mulch them between my teeth...

Author: By Stuart A. Davis, | Title: The Boston Review | 10/20/1966 | See Source »

Toplcapi. Closing time. The gates swing to, the guards take a cigarette break. In the gilded halls of Istanbul's Topkapi Palace Museum no sound is heard. But in the flowery promenade-no doubt about it, the metal lid on that mulch pit moved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nympholucrosmaragdomania | 9/18/1964 | See Source »

After several violent deaths, sundry fornications and an inventively rigged court trial, Author Willingham brings the book to its crowning mockery, a happy ending. The little flowers, pushing up through the mulch of Willingham's Faulkner parodies, Truman Capote parodies and Carson McCullers parodies, nod prettily to each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: End As a Fairy Tale | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

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