Word: whitmanic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vote break-down was: dormitories for-Barnard (51-12), Briggs (52-38), Cabot (46-41), Coggeshall (12-3), Eliot (23-19), Everett (17-1), Gilman (15-7), Holmes (29-37), Jordan K (15-5), Moors (67-20), Saville (11-1), Slater (4-1), Warner (11-7), Whitman (56-13), and Wolbach...
...will be divided into several two or three week segments during which different professors will lecture on individual authors. In the first semester, lecturers will probably include Cedric H. Whitman '38, professor of Greek and Latin, on Homer; Finley on Sophocles; Wilbur M. Frohock, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, on Rabelais; Bullit on Cervantes; and Harry T. Levin '23, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, on Shakespeare...
Also, David J. Rittenhouse, of Quincy House and Montreal, Canada; Brandon W. Sweitzer, of Eliot House and Madison, Conn.; John Thorndike, of Eliot House and Exeter, N.H.; Charles S. Whitman III, of Eliot House and New York City; and Louis G. Williams, of Eliot House and Gladwyne...
...profited by exposure to the likes of William Carlos Williams. The complaint is true, but beside the point. Voznesensky and Evtushenko invite useful comparison not with the sophisticated Western poets of today but with Carl Sandburg singing of the Western plains or the chest-thumping celebrations of Walt Whitman. Like Sandburg, and like the U.S. folk singers who make up rhymes for the freedom riders, the new Soviet poets tend to alternate between lyrical simplicity and passionate rhetoric, as in these excerpts translated in Encounter...
...Whitman petition was begun immediately after Thursday's meeting adjourned, and the Barnard request was circulated later in the evening...