Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...factly. Young men are beaten and killed not only over money, girlfriends and drugs but often for saying the wrong thing or wearing the wrong type of clothes. Acts of brutality serve as a way of proving one's manhood, and the casual nature of the violence might reflect a general feeling that life is not worth much in the ghetto...
...decision is left up to the judge, William B. Keene, a retired California jurist. On Superior Court, all the participants are played by actors, and the proceedings -- including the final decision by Judge William D. Burns Jr., a Los Angeles municipal-court commissioner -- are totally scripted to reflect the outcome of similar real-life cases. The Judge, with a title character played by Actor Bob Shield and melodramatic scenes outside the courtroom, often seems scarcely different from a daytime soap...
Nonetheless, Ginsberg presents in White Shroud some gems within the political rough. Those gems were formed by the sheer force of Whitman, Williams, and a younger Allen Ginsberg, and they reflect an illuminating vision and a lasting value...
Ginsberg is becoming very "post"; he is 60 years old, and his poems reflect a morbid fear of old age. He also fears his own obselescence. Ginsberg previously penned two different poems entitled "Don't Grow Old," and that is the overriding theme in White Shroud. "I can't get it up/...Growing old in my heaven," he writes in "Airplane Blues." He is clearly self-conscious in his poems, for he is both old enough and important enough to refer to himself several times. Increasingly, Ginsberg's poetry is rooted in his past, as he alludes to "Howl," "Aunt...
...reading is a time to reflect about war and peace, not necessarily to accomplish anything concrete," Bok said...