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...lately than his writing, leaving Gregory Corso as his archdisci-ple. At 41, Corso has a tone a trifle less shrill, decorated with more literary allusions, perhaps more varied rhythmically than Ginsberg's. It is still a prosody deriving directly from Walt Whitman, full of "I saw," "I swear," "I weep," "I curse," "I look" and studded with sudden "O's" and exclamation marks...
...squalor, the death of prewar British society. The Good Soldier (1915) is so subtle and shapely a domestic tragedy that it very nearly makes good the narrator's extravagant claim: "The death of a mouse from cancer is the whole sack of Rome by the Goths, and I swear to you that the breaking up of our little foursquare coterie was such another unthinkable event...
...oppose state rules that require them to submit to inquiries about their loyalty to the Government before they can be licensed to practice. In cases from Arizona and Ohio, the court ruled 5 to 4 that bar applicants need not list all of the organizations they have joined, or swear that they have never belonged to groups that advocate violent overthrow of the Government. But in a New York case, the court (also 5 to 4) made a subtle distinction: New York, and presumably other states, may require bar applicants to reveal whether they ever belonged to a subversive group...
...time they left Ft. Leavenworth (goddamn Kansas) prison army base, forget the guys she'd fallen for who'd slugged her, Patty, who was smart but never read, who stood by traditions of the South, "Any niggers try to marry my kid I'll kill 'em, I swear to God I will. It's not right, black and white marrying like that. It's not meant to be, the Bible says so," and Patty loves the black people that she knows, she really does, or did ... does. Patty who loved to lie on the beach, who finally married Porky Morrison...
...only swear, swear...