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...Texas Republican politics, is worried because he has been hit by what he calls "two whammies." A few years ago, his land was worth $1,400 an acre. Now he figures it runs at best $1,000 an acre. Where he once could get 14 cents for a pound of rice, he now can expect only 8 cents. Each acre, in short, brought $700 when he harvested 5,000 lbs. of rice on it in the mid-'70s; now it brings him just...
...increasingly, foes of tobacco began asking why any tax funds should go to a product that the Government itself says is a health risk. Under pressure, Congress in 1982 decided the tobacco program should be self-sustaining. To cover their loans, farmers were automatically assessed 3 cents for every pound of flue-cured tobacco they marketed...
...other problems. So if they don't go to Rhode Island, they go to the Worcesfer Centrum Which is fine for all the students at Worcesfer High, who immediately buy 1,000 tickets each and help them back to us for 10 times the original price and a pound of flesh for good measure...
Ginsberg: Chanting more than music. Pound used to say "pay attention to the tone meaning of the vowels." In Greek you have the pitch. That's why people don't know how to chant Home: anymore because the oral tradition has been lost. And they have to figure it out from the diacritical marks. If you become sensitized to the pitch of the vowels you will begin to appreciate the consonants and bite them like Bob Dylan does, or as any great singer does. You also savor the vowels as physical marbles in your month and become more interested...
Ginsberg: An enormous amount. Many word sociologists like McClure and Pound say that when words get separated from direct conversation when they are just on the page without the physical component of sound, then the head gets cut off from the bod. And people will tend to go into generalizations and hyper-abstraction of the language. Words have to refer to something real, and when we begin to take words as having eternal abstract essence without any physical reference, the human content is removed from the language. As Pound points out, when the words in poetry get cut off from...