Word: whitmanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...husband's purported infidelity moaning that "he has forsaken my aging flesh for-for what? To lose him to some exquisite little girl with long hair flicking like a horse's mane, a student drawn to him and he to her, intoxicated with the wine dark words of Walt Whitman, yes, okay, that's as it should be." Since when does turning 30 signal the onset of senescence? Admittedly, there is a certain fragility to women's social status as they age, but this tends to be counteracted by the rewards of a rich and fulfilling professional life...
...Walt Whitman once wrote, "From the clasp of the knitted locks, from the keep of the well-closed doors, let me be wafted...
...also painted. Though born and raised in Ohio, Bellows had coastal roots -- his grandfather was a whaler at Montauk on the eastern tip of New York's Long Island -- and the Atlantic was as fundamental a source of imaginative nourishment to him as it had been to Melville or Whitman. "We two and the great sea," he wrote to his wife in a moment of romantic exaltation, "and the mighty rocks greater than the sea . . . Four eternities." There are times -- as in the wonderfully ineloquent An Island in the Sea (1911) -- when Bellows' vision of the coast, a primal geological...
...Harvard--Becky Gaffney (3), Liz Berkery (2),Megan Colligan (2), Sarah Downing (2), Brooke Early (2), Buffy Hansen (2), Sarah Winters (2), Francie Walton (1); Rutgers--Heather Jones (4), Jodi Deem (1). A: Harvard--Berkery (1), Downing (1), Walton (1); Rutgers--None. S: Harvard--Sarah Leary 6; Rutgers--Tara Whitman...
Unsurprisingly, Berger idolizes Walt Whitman, another writer-lover, for beginning the democratization of art. When art rejects elitism, it "achieves...a spontaneous continuity with all of mankind. It is not an art of the princes or of the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant." In this spirit, Berger spins his own stories...