Word: whitmanic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This week he is in Indiana doing a one-man Walt Whitman show, which he has already taken to 23 cities. Then it's back to Madison Avenue to do an other spot for Eastern. "Frankly," he says, in the voice that no one dares disbelieve, "I have more respect for the commercials I'm doing than some of the stuff that's on Broadway...
...that has been written about William James, psychologist, philosopher, teacher and author, nothing as good as this full-length biography has appeared before. Author Allen, an English professor at New York University and a skilled biographer of Walt Whitman, presents James's complex character with the ease and clarity that distinguished his subject's own style. There is no understanding James's skeptical temperament without understanding his extraordinary family. Using unpublished papers, Allen weaves a rich account of the restless, tightly knit clan. As for William, his character is best expressed in his own words: "My first...
...other house representatives are: Walter Jaros '68, Adams House; Kenneth M. Glaier '69, Kirkland House; Alexander Keyssar '68, Leverett House; Ron D. Lare '69, Lowell House; Stephen V. Whitman '68, Winthrop House. Eliot House has not yet held its election...
...Born in Whitman, Mass., where his father ran a grocery, Spellman gave no early hint of religious vocation. He attended public elementary and high schools, helped in his father's store, worked one summer as a conductor on the local trolley line. At New York's Jesuit-run Fordham University he was a conscientious but hardly brilliant student, a debater, and an earnest poet. Only on the eve of graduation did he decide to enter the priesthood. Ordained in 1916, he went to Rome as translator for a Boston bishop in 1925, so impressing Pope Pius XI that...
...been written by a reader for readers, by a human being for human beings," instead of by "a syndicate of encyclopedias for an audience of International Business Machines." He could dismiss the pedantries of his associates with a single slash. He ends an essay on Whitman: "I have said so little about Whitman's faults because they are so plain: baby critics who have barely learned to complain of the lack of ambiguity in Peter Rabbit can tell you what is wrong with Leaves of Grass...