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...instrument of rendering his vision of human experience. Mark Schorer (of Berkeley), Walter Van Tillburg Clark, and Kenneth Rexroth (strawman poet and loquacious spokesman for the North Beach literati) told Judge Clayton Horn that the language of vulgarity was for Ginsberg a natural vernacular. (Ginsberg, after a stint at Columbia had been educated in night-spots, ghost towns, and freight car pilgrimages west...
...After graduating in 1958, Sheehan signed up for a three-year stint in the U.S. Army and was shipped to Korea. He was given a job as a pay clerk, but then began to work as an army journalist. He was eventually transferred to Tokyo, where he reported for the military newspaper Stars and Stripes...
Forman's background is in documentary films, plus a stint writing for the 2005 Israeli miniseries adapted for HBO as In Treatment. (He wrote three episodes for the series' haunted soldier, who was played by Assi Dayan, the son of Defense Minister and war hero Moshe Dayan.) Like generations of Israelis, Forman grew up in a country that is besieged by hostile neighbors even as it occupies land the Palestinians consider their own. That twin feeling, of being both prisoners and police, might give anyone restless dreams. But the soldiers whose commanders did nothing to stop the 1982 massacre, while...
...Indeed, it is hard to see how Samuels could pen a novel that included all of the adventures that he throws together here, including his three-day stint at Woodstock ’99, a tour of an atomic bomb test site in Nevada, a profile of Bill “the Spaceman” Lee, and his personal ruminations on his marginalia of Salinger’s “Franny and Zooey...
...done with it," says Amrita Sapre, a marketing and sales professional with Microsoft in Bangalore. "One year in this city, and I can't take it any more!" Like many young Indian executives, Sapre and her husband Parag, who works with Satyam Computer Services Ltd., thought a stint working at giant IT corporations in Bangalore would be a great addition to their resumes. But a year on, the Sapres are stressed out, and ready to move to Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. "Our jobs keep us so busy that we only meet each other on weekends; there...