Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crimson: To what extent do you visualize your writing in sound and what extent is the content of the words important...
Ginsberg: Content is visual because you see pictures. According to one of Kerouac's quotes in an essay called "The Essentials of Modern Prose": "don't stop to think of the words but to see the picture better." The sound is something I here in my ear. There are no rules to that, you've just got to like the sound of the words. I wrote a poem in China called "China Bronchitis." Immediately the title sounded funny because of the sounds. It has sort of a bee-boop sound, and the "a" sound in "China" goes together with...
...employee fails, that is okay too. Failure, says Pinchot, should be regarded as a learning experience and must be permitted within firms. He writes that large companies are good at coming up with sound ideas, but they are generally poor at carrying them out because of a "morass of analysis, approvals and politics...
...ignorance about the Church's teaching on human sexuality, a lot of false assumptions. I think there is an abysmal ignorance on natural family planning including in the medical community. I think that the Church's responsibility is to attempt very serenely to encourage and develop good sound teaching on human sexuality and encourage counseling and natural family planning... but to assume that there is artificial contraception or there is total abstinence is simply not true...
Whether the attacks are "terrorist" or not, they are indicative not merely of the violent zeal with which some pro-liters approach abortion, but of what the actual debate on abortion has come to in this country a dangerous silence broken periodically by a bomb blast and the sound of fire sterns. Also filling this brandishing graphic photographs and drawings of aborted fetuses barricading clinic doors, harassing patients and workers and even calling abortion patients at home who are about to enter the facilities. There has been no sweeping condemnation by pro-life activists of such protests which have also...