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...Henry Cowell, in the 1930s, used to beat the prepared piano with their fists and elbows for new sonority. Like Cage and Cowell, the "Zacher school" seems as fond of grotesquerie as grace. And even grotesquerie has its place. It was Berlioz, after all, who ordered the violinists to rap on their strings with the wood of their bows in the Symphonie Fantastique, a very avant-garde thing...
Spider wanted to rap about while socks. "You like the bright cottons or the wooly whites?" Spider asked...
...purely civil servant who's watching the time clock is going to be put out. But whites who have a sense of commitment, heart as well as head, will be hired. And black people are not going to tolerate black people who are going to do nothing but rap in the classrooms...
...whatever means necessary" is the dictum of revolution. A growing number of radicals have come to believe that the necessity is fire and bomb blast. In some quarters the impression has spread that violence, as Rap Brown once said, is indeed "as American as cherry...
...scariest moments of my life. But you know, man, we've got to come back here. I bet that if we used motorcycles, dressed casually -really low-profile-we could get off this main road and sort of glide into the villages. We might be able to rap with some of the Cambodians, and then have them take us to where we can get pictures of the action...