Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Allen Ginsberg sounds as though he is trying to rescue himself from his own emptiness. It is a shame when the mind of a man of his caliber becomes confused and resorts to making a mockery of the accomplishments of himself and his peers. The ultimate goal of dissent is change, not destruction. The once sprightly spirit of this "visionary" is dead. Jay E. Newcomb Lafayette...
Victory over the entrenched forces of American prejudice, ignorance, and unthinking anti-communism-and especially over the entreaties of our nation's corporate interests-will require an enormous and continuing national crusade. Perhaps there are two chances: creating an overpowering sense of American shame, or creating an awesome committment by millions of individuals to something vaguely labelled human progress. They are deeply contradictory goals-guilt and messianic drive. For that reason, deep changes in Americans are necessary...
...other hand. "Astral Projection," the most radical departure from traditional narrative in the volume, fails to forge its avant-garde devices--all-caps subheadings, fragmentation, floating unexplained lines of dialogue interspersed with blocks of "technical" data--into a memorable whole. It would be a shame if Domini's work (the cover says he is finishing a novel) blundered into experimental affectation, when he could follow instead the promising signposts of whimsical intuition or philosophical fantasy that Bedlam suggests. If he takes the right path, he may not be teaching Expos forever...
Which was a shame. I found out later, reading the Crimson extra in my room long after the partying had stopped and everyone had gone to bed and my dad had flown home from Logan after treating me to dinner. The game had been a classic--35-28 Yale was the final--"one of the most exciting Harvard-Yale games in recent years." John Donley's story said...
...loosen up along the way. The jokes flow less smoothly and one's attention wanes as the story progresses. In his best work, Perelman's words crowd together on the page and jab at you continually. Here they seem to spread out and sit more complacently. It is a shame that in our last glimpse of this fine writer, he is not at his best...