Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...column some twelve feet high and six feet wide, with compartments bearing such names as "The 10% War Invalid," "Ruhr District," "Goethe's Grotto" and "Sex-Murders Cavern." They enshrined, among other relics, a tattered stocking, which Schwitters insisted had belonged to Goethe, and a bottle of yellow fluid on which little flowers were suspended, which he whimsically called "the Master's urine"-meaning...
...sound like your standard "white-eyes-hunt-the-yellow-iron" Central Casting Indian, but Dan George is the real thing, a former chief of British Columbia's Tse-lal-watt tribe. He is also, thanks to his magnificent performance as the noble non-savage in Arthur Penn's Little Big Man, the most astonishingly successful new actor in Hollywood. Much of the film's validity rests on his authentic and serene presence as Old Lodge Skins. When he tells his adopted grandson (Dustin Hoffman), "My heart soars like a hawk to see you," one can truly visualize...
...HERE I AM, looking back over my life and times at Harvard, finding clever phrases that will somehow sum it all up. These marks I'm making on yellow paper will be sent out to the multitudes, some of whom (I am supposed to believe) will read them with something approximating interest, most of whom will ignore them, Some of them, I guess, really will use our product to wrap fish...
...because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a common place thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww...
...friend's death, one that he had just been working on during his subway ride up to Columbia. That poem is one of three by Ginsberg that are reprinted, as postscripts, to Scenes Along the Road. The poem he read from is called "Memory Gardens": covered with yellow leaves in morning rain