Word: poemes
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...very happy life," she says. "I adjusted so much to life. I think even prison is only a state of mind. It's like the army--the only difference is you don't have weekend passes." She laughs at her own remark. "How's that poem...
...split is evident in his book, The Beat Generation-part sketchy sociology, part elementary lit. crit., part personal reportage and part casual Ph.D. thesis. "The almost schizophrenic change that has been worked in the temper of our times," Cook proclaims, "was predicted a decade before, implicit in every poem, novel and prose piece produced by the Beat Generation...
...those resounding overstatements at once perfectly true and thoroughly misleading. It is not hard to find elements in Beat writing-or any other serious writing of the time-that predicted something as vague as "almost schizophrenic change" in "the temper of our times." Allen Ginsberg, whose poem Howl is generally thought to have started the literary side of the movement, sang of devastated minds, mysticism and hallucinogenic drugs. Gregory Corso raged against authority, lamented the thinning of his wild hair and questioned the institution of marriage. Jack Kerouac's On the Road bubbled about the transient life. Lawrence Ferlinghetti...
...Harvard Lampoon has done its thing in our image, and P.G. Wodehouse once wrote a poem, "TIME Like an Ever-Rolling Stream," about our masthead. Poet Allen Ginsberg viewed us from his rather special perspective in his counterculture epic America...
...international pitch standard. This is obviously not the council's most momentous problem, but if harmony is finally achieved, it may put an end to discordant, bitonal performances of complex works like Richard Strauss's Thus Spake Zarathustra. When the Vienna Philharmonic played the Strauss tone poem in London a few years ago, the orchestra built up to a tremendous climax, hit a C-major chord and waited for the organ to enter. Enter it did: a half tone flat, since it was tuned to British rather than Viennese pitch...