Columbia alumni have made an indelible mark in the field of American poetry and literature, with such people as Jack Kerouac, one of the pioneers of the Beat Generation, and Langston Hughes, a seminal figure in the Harlem Renaissance, having both attended the university.

The album ’ s title song was inspired by Jack Kerouac ’ s book, The Lonesome Traveller in which Kerouac tells the story of America ’ s “ homeless brothers ,” or hobos.

The Village ( and surrounding New York City ) would later play central roles in the writings of, among others, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Marianne Moore, Maya Angelou, Rod McKuen, and Dylan Thomas, who collapsed at the Chelsea Hotel and died at St. Vincents Hospital at 170 West 12th Street, in the Village after drinking at the White Horse Tavern on November 5, 1953.

From his peers he developed a taste for counterculture: he and his friends would steal the records and books of their older siblings – William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Mothers of Invention.

In The Dharma at Big Sur, Adam's draws from literary texts such as Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder and Henry Miller to illustrate the California landscape.

Spengler's vision of the cyclical nature of civilization and the contemporaneity of the end of the Western European cycle led William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg to look for the seeds of the next cycle in the communities of which they were a part.

From the second half of the 1950s, Beat Generation writers like William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg wrote about and took drugs, including cannabis and Benzedrine, raising awareness and helping to popularise their use.

He enjoyed reading works by the thinkers of his generation like Timothy Leary and Jack Kerouac, also dabbling in some LSD usage.

A fan of Bob Dylan, Lord Buckley, Jack Kerouac, Louis Armstrong, Howlin ' Wolf, and Charles Bukowski, Waits began developing his own idiosyncratic musical style.

Waits described the album as: ... a comprehensive study of a number of aspects of this search for the center of Saturday night, which Jack Kerouac relentlessly chased from one end of this country to the other, and I've attempted to scoop up a few diamonds of this magic that I see.

The album is also notable for containing a number of covers of songs by other artists, including The Ramones (" The Return of Jackie and Judy " and " Danny Says "), Daniel Johnston (" King Kong "), Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht (" What Keeps Mankind Alive "), and Leadbelly (" Ain't Goin ' Down to the Well " and " Goodnight Irene "), as well as renditions of works by poets and authors admired by Waits, such as Charles Bukowski and Jack Kerouac and a previously released duet with Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse entitled " Dog Door ".

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During its lifetime Hotel Chelsea has provided a home to many great writers and thinkers including Mark Twain, O. Henry, Herbert Huncke, Dylan Thomas, Arthur C. Clarke, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Arnold Weinstein, Leonard Cohen, Sharmagne Leland-St. John, Arthur Miller, Quentin Crisp, Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac ( who wrote On the Road there ), Robert Hunter, Jack Gantos, Brendan Behan, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Thomas Wolfe, Charles Bukowski, Raymond Kennedy, Matthew Richardson, James T. Farrell, Valerie Solanas, Mary Cantwell, and René Ricard.

His writing influenced many subsequent novelists such as Marcel Proust, Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Gustave Flaubert, Benito Pérez Galdós, Marie Corelli, Henry James, William Faulkner, Jack Kerouac, and Italo Calvino, and philosophers such as Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx.

He notes that those born in the years before the actual boom were often the most influential people among boomers ; for example, The Beatles, Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones Charlie Watts, he was born on June 2, 1941 to and writers like Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg who were considerably older than the boomer generation.

* Jack Kerouac ( in On the Road and arguably more so in Visions of Cody )

Writers such as Hermann Hesse and Jack Kerouac, in the West, and the hippie generation of the late 1960s and early 1970s led to a re-discovery of Buddhism.

As well as his love for music, he was also a voracious reader, and his literary inspirations included Jack Kerouac, Truman Capote, Robert Burns and Dylan Thomas.

Politics tended to be liberal ; with support for causes such as desegregation ( although many of the figures associated with the original Beat movement, particularly Jack Kerouac, embraced libertarian / conservative ideas ).

As a result, the books were frequently smuggled into the States, where they would prove to be a major influence on the new Beat generation of American writers ( most notably Jack Kerouac ) some of whom would adopt stylistic and thematic principles found in Miller's oeuvre.

Directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, Daisy was adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of his play, Beat Generation ; Kerouac also provided improvised narration.

* Jack Ruby, the killer of Lee Harvey Oswald, had a dachshund named Sheba, which he often referred to as his wife.

The three priests answer to Bishop Len Brennan, who has banished them to Craggy Island as punishment for different incidents in their past: Ted for alleged financial impropriety ( apparently involving some money ' resting ' in his account and a child being deprived a visit to Lourdes so that Ted could go to Las Vegas ), Dougal for something only referred to as the " Blackrock Incident " ( resulting in many " lives irreparably damaged "), and Jack for his alcoholism and womanising.

* The twelve-volume opus Life by Unspiek, Baron Bodissey is an oft-quoted imaginary work referred to in various novels by Jack Vance.

* In the 2005 episodes " The Empty Child " and " The Doctor Dances ", Jack Harkness uses a " sonic blaster ", referred to by Rose Tyler as a " squareness gun ", capable of " digitising " structures by disintegrating them and then reversing the process, among other functions.

Variety film critic Leonard Klady referred to the film as " a vanity production parading as a social statement " and commented that the film seemingly borrowed heavily from the earlier film, Billy Jack but opined that Seagal lacked " acting technique and the ability behind the camera to keep the story simple and direct " that Billy Jack star Tom Laughlin, exhibited.

The flag in a white border occasionally seen on merchant ships was sometimes referred to as the Pilot Jack.

The Union flag has been embroidered on various Reebok equipment as a mark of the brand's British origin, and the Reebok Union Jack has been referred to as a brand icon.

In an often-quoted review in Time Magazine, Jack E. White referred to the film as a " cinematic lynching of the truth ".

Although Ginsberg referred to many of his friends and acquaintances ( including Neal Cassady, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Peter Orlovsky, Lucien Carr, and Herbert Huncke ), the primary emotional drive was his sympathy for Carl Solomon, to whom it was dedicated ; he met Solomon in a mental institution and became friends with him.

In Britain, it is often referred to as Black Jack ( not to be confused with the casino card game Blackjack ).

Later the orchestra began to develop its own character, particularly in the woodwind section, led by Jack Brymer ( clarinet ), Gwydion Brooke ( bassoon ), Terence McDonagh ( oboe ), and Gerald Jackson ( flute ), sometimes referred to as ‘ The Royal Family ’.

In 1811, a pyramid-shaped building, often referred to as " The Pyramid ", was erected in the churchyard of the Church of St. Thomas à Becket in Brightling as a future mausoleum for Jack Fuller.

He owned a monkey named after his previous captain Jack Sparrow, and was referred to as the " one-legged man " in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.

Cracker Jack includes a small " mystery " novelty item referred to as a " prize " in each box.

John George Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham GCB, PC ( 12 April 1792 – 28 July 1840 ), also known as " Radical Jack " and commonly referred to in Canadian history texts simply as Lord Durham, was a British Whig statesman, colonial administrator, Governor General and high commissioner of British North America .< ref >

Pelagius is frequently referred to in Jack Whyte's series of books known as A Dream of Eagles, where a major character's belief in Pelagius ' ideas of Free Will and the laxity of the Roman Catholic Church eventually cause him to come into conflict with Church representatives.

* In Patrick O ' Brien's The Surgeon's Mate, Kimber, a character who swindles Jack Aubrey with a vast mining and canal digging scheme, is referred to as a thaumaturge.

Only five golfers have won all four of golf's modern Majors at any time during their career, an achievement which is often referred to as a Career Grand Slam: Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, and Tiger Woods.

This is specifically referred to the passes thrown by Johnny Barrett and Milt Ghee to Jack Meagher and Oscar Knop.

However, according to information in the church of St Mary in Great Baddow, in Essex, England, Jack Straw led an ill-fated crowd from the churchyard there to the risings, and he is elsewhere referred to as the leader of the men from Essex ( as opposed to Tyler, who led the rebels from Kent ).

* The book is referred to on multiple episodes of many radio shows including The Jack Benny Program, Bob Hope Show, A Day in the Life of Dennis Day, The Phil Harris and Alice Faye Show, The Fred Allen Show, It Pays to Be Ignorant, The Great Gildersleeve and The Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy Show and Fibber McGee & Molly on the episode from 2 / 19 / 1952.

Jacobs was so well liked that the fans even referred to the new stadium as " The House that Jack Built ".

Journalist Jack Jones has referred to him as a sociopath.