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...People shouldn't hold their breath," said Skocpol, who is currently tenured at the University of Chicago. I'm sure I'm going to take a lot less time deciding on them than they took deciding...

Author: By Charles T. Kurzman, | Title: Skocpol Negotiates Tenure Offer | 2/8/1985 | See Source »

...phonic knowledge." Nobody studies it in the universities, but every poet studies Kerouac's seminal book, Mexico City Blues. Kerouac's had completly free form and he listened to jazz artists like Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk and Miles Davis. The idea behind the jazz was spontaneous improvisation and long breath. That had an influence on the line in "Howl" and any other long-line poems I've done. Thelonius Monk's idea of thinking then silence, thinking then silence affected "Kaddish." It would go: clonk, clonk...clonkcklonkcklonk. The big silences in Monk's work are equivalent to the dashes that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ginsberg on the Beat | 2/7/1985 | See Source »

Ginsberg: That's all over the world. I've spent a lot of time working, studying and performing with Australian aborigines. They have the oldest body of epic literature in the world; it goes back 12,000 years. Non-written language, purely writing on the breath, on the spirit, was a world tradition that preceded the invention of the printing press. Words are separated from speech when printed on the page. They lose their body, their breath because with the written word it is just the eye to the page, bypassing the physical element...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ginsberg on the Beat | 2/7/1985 | See Source »

...guys," Walsh addressed the 49ers, "you know it isn't like this is your first high school game and you're afraid the coach is going to put you in." Their vapors were cured with a breath of laughter, the first move of the chess match. Though a botched kickoff return started San Francisco off on its own 6-yd. line, Walsh declined to deviate from his script of plays. When Freddie Solomon dropped pass No. 1 in the dangerous flat, Montana accepted him back in the huddle with a grin. Throwing for 331 yds. and three touchdowns, running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A San Francisco Tour De Force | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

Women have a little more flexibility, depending whom they want to be taken for. Angora sweater, tight skirt, colored nylons and pumps the Screaming Wellesley. Useful only if you want six slobbering moustaches in leather jackets and open shirts crooning. "We sure is from Harvard" as their breath corrodes your makeup. On a weekend, looking like you're almost off to a party provides a useful excuse to disengage from the lovestruck Lothario trying to stuff his phone number down your décolletage ("Excuse me, I'm expected at the party the football team is throwing"). Another weekend option...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Boozing and Cruising at the Filly | 2/1/1985 | See Source »

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