Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seventeen years later, Ginsberg finds himself alone, many of his closest friends dead, most of his contemporaries retreating into a more reserved, intellectualized version of a poetry he helped to create. The Fall Of America continues Ginsberg's undaunted quest for his own separate but absolute reality. ("Iron Horse," along with the earlier "Wichita Vortex Sutra," is to be read as part of The Fall...) While he is less personal now, he never forgets, as William Burroughs puts it, "what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing." So, even in their many weaker moments, the poems...
...watched. But to my surprise, and dismay, what ensued could hardly be deemed a "horror classic:" a cast of unknowns, a script right out of a booby prize collection (neither of which had ever disturbed me before), and a story of a dedicated missionary-type healer-researcher in his quest for the cure of red fever. The crimes: forgery and assuming a false identity. Having expected this "classic" at least to provide me with some of the horrification stimuli of Frankenstein or Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde, you can probably understand my disappointment. Nevertheless, I watched the entire flick...
...Genteel Decline. Instead of sherry, she sips memories of the days when the hotel was grand and the world young. There is the Crusty Old Geezer. He has lost most of his marbles, but is testily ad amant about the rules of checkers. There is the Boy in Quest of Identity, who is trying to track down a missing grandfather. And good for more than a few laughs is the Health-Food Evangelist, played by Mari Gorman with the abrasive tongue and cocked shoulders of a Marine sergeant...
...start off, they give you The Soldier's Tale. Now we all know that only in The Rite of Spring did Stravinsky truly succeed in his lifelong quest for a musical equivalent of Last Tango in Paris. But it seems to me that The Soldier's Tale comes much closer to bringing music into the twentieth century we know today, the century in which the common people--in the poems of Ezra Pound as well as the jungles of Indochina -- insist on asserting their rightful sway...
...also appeared impossible to translate the quest for neutrality into practical terms. Moral neutrality is an impossible stance, the report suggested: "If the University would not consider buying stock in gambling houses, even where legal and however attractive financially--as presumably it would not--it cannot close its eyes to...moral factors...