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...criticism as a value-free system meant to classify all of the aspects of our own "verbal experience." Here was the boy-genius of sorts, with his shy smile and ingenuous delight n applause, who seemed to command all of Western literature and more. Here too was the wizened sage who not only possessed a comprehensive knowledge of literature, but brought it together in a perapatetic lecture-style, roaming up and down the superhighways and obscure paths of literary endeavors. His reliance on a notion of "some poets do"--instead of "all poets should"--formed the basis...
Forman instead brewed up harmless-sounding potions, including one made of "sage, marjoram, elderbuds, ashbuds, berberis, liquorice, aniseed, aloes and juniper berries." He seems to have reassured people more than he treated them, and that was probably for the best, given the primitive state of medical science and the appalling maladies of the time. Confronted with a patient who "breeds worms in his nose of stinking sweet and venomous humor," Forman sensibly recommended a change in diet and frequent face washing...
...news of the dead Knight's homosexuality was fully reported in the family papers. Later a sallow, sometime student, William Sage, 20, who is married, told Philadelphia police that he had carried on a five-year liaison with Knight in Detroit. Sage led police to a chest in Knight's apartment containing tape recordings of homosexual encounters, pictures of naked boys and Knight's diary-which ironically recorded the fact that as a result of analysis, Knight was beginning to like women...
...semester at Harvard was both enjoyable and satisfying, but I came here with my eyes open, not expecting immortal truths and revelations to fall into my lap every time I shook the academic tree. It is an attitude I heartily commend to all incoming freshmen for, as a sage old British friend once told me, "The only place one is likely to find the Philosopher's Stone is in the gallbladder of a bilious pedant." What I sought during my stay at Harvard was not Veritas (how many of us would recognize that rare commodity even if we did come...
...superstar if he had gone commercial the way Dylan did. But it was clear why they never made it when his band led off the show: their solo set left the audience wondering if they sounded more like a pallid imitation of the New Riders of the Purple Sage or a bland version of the Youngbloods...