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...work was hardly in the tradition of Ulysses. It consisted mainly of a parade of poetry professors from nearby universities to justify Ginsberg’s sexual imagery as an 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...
More out of frustration than real commitment, he got involved in politics. The Nixon administration became his strawman. In Nixon, he saw the root to his troubles, the cause of his alienation...
Straw-Man Issue. If his career-officer listeners should find their commitment to meet U.S. world responsibilities "derided as a form of militarism," said Nixon, they must "recognize that strawman issue for what it is." Nixon then set up his own straw men, "the skeptics and the isolationists." When the first explorers set out from Europe toward the New World, he said disdainfully, "these men would have weighed the risks, and they would have stayed behind." When pioneers set out from the East Coast colonies into the interior, "these men would have counted the costs, and they would have stayed...
This was his positive program; the rest of the speech of devoted to attacking a strawman, which he called, Meyer record in Congress. For instance, criticizing Meyer's attitude toward the draft--he wants it abolished--Stafford quoted to Congressman's phrase "cancerous militarism." "This disgusts me," he said, "disgusts all Vermont's who fought in World War II. It is against the interests of thousands of Vermatan and millions of Americans...
...following his deeply-felt mission in life, had all he could do to stumble through his lines. James Ruberti and Ralph Hoffmann, as the wholesaler Guldstad and law-clerk Stiver, made poor starts but improved greatly by their big scenes in the third act. Donald McAllister, who played Paster Strawman, has a serious diction problem. He must get rid of his awful accent, and can start by watching his vowels and sibilants...