Word: walts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Walt Whitman called it "the Presidential". Woodrow Wilson referred to it as a "great and solemn referendum". The average voter, whoever he may be, looks on it as a recognition of his own importance. The cynic may think it a waste of good time and money, but the patriot leaps to the ballot box with an unholy joy shining...
...Albert, J. H. Courtney, John D. Farnham '23, L. B. Goldsmith, J. C. Kunkel, E. S. Reid, Jr., A. M. Taylor, E. L. Twomey, D. V. Berman, L. C. Dohmen, J. L. Fly, H. C. Havighurst, K. Lloyd, H. C. Spencer, J. R. Towshen, Richard Walt '23, J. T. Best, C. F. Farbach '23, W. J. Friedman, Lawrence Kimball '22, G. H. Mason, J. S. Stone, M. Turner...
...feminine Walt Whitman," transformed at 23 into a recluse...
...will probably be admitted by both sides that descriptions of this nature are not aesthetically beautiful, and that Walt Whitman cannot always be read in the parlor, but in this case the remedy seems worse than the disease. Amputation of "disgusting" passages in accepted classics has been attempted in secondary schools with utterly insipid results. To apply this principle to modern literature seems but a new version of the old story of that very characteristic man who cut off his nose to spite his face. And quite apart a host of ethical objections to a policy of rigorous censorship...
...possible to account for the enigma of Walt Whitman's conflicting reputations in Europe and in America in terms of the exaggerated respect which Americans hold for most things European and the concomitant deprecation of most things American. Old books, old hats, and old families are the better for a European origin. Certainly all visitors to the New World, from Columbus to Israel Zangwill, have commented with chary epigrams on this one commendable attribute of the natives. But respect is not synonymous with love; and it may be argued that too much respect and too little love for the European...