Word: walts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There should be a new University motto: Walt Whitman's line, "Solitary, singing in the West, I strike up for a new world...
...Among Gide's 70-odd volumes of prose (mostly essays and novels), poems, plays and prefaces, are translations of poems by William Blake, Rabindranath Tagore, Walt Whitman, Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra...
...prizes for a motto to replace the present one, Cres-cat Scientia Vita Excolatur, which means "Let Knowledge Grow That Life May Be Enriched." But some people do not understand Latin, and others do not understand "enriched" as spiritually as President Hutchins would wish. He proposed a line from Walt Whitman: "Solitary, singing in the West, I strike up for a new world...
...growing impression that this industry is made up of and dominated by communists, radicals and crackpots." The Generalissimo is urbane, greying Sam Wood, who diluted For Whom the Bell Tolls so that Spanish Fascists became "nationalists" and Spanish Republicans came out like the American G.O.P. His general staff includes Walt Disney, Rupert Hughes, one writer from Republic Studios, and ten Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer executives, faithful minions of Tycoon Louis B. Mayer. Gary Cooper, Hemingway's Spanish Republican hero, ate dinner with them. Hearst papers gave the affair pages of pleased attention...
...long since found release in popular, illustrated broadsides. The tradition of this imagerie populaire, passed on by Geneva cartoonist Rudolph Topffer, was rekindled by Dore. His little-known little kings of Russia, emerging from the same folk sources as Otto Soglow's present-day Little King and Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse, have a verve and gaiety that is hard to reconcile with his brooding plates for the classics...