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...machine, with its stripped and logical forms, its imagery of power, change and fast communication, would make concrete what Walt Whitman had dreamed of: "The expression of the American poet is to be transcendent and new." Farewell to Henry Adams' Virgin, to the Renaissance and Gothic nostalgia that had assuaged the cultural elites of New York and Boston at the end of the 19th century; welcome to the dynamo, to the total plan, the slick shell housing, the fins and flanges, the didactic sheen of stainless steel, the Aztec-style bracelet of imperishable Bakelite. Goodbye, Hell's Kitchen; hello, skyscraper...
...Insurance companies have targeted life-styles, beneficiaries, even Zip Codes," says Mauro Montoya, legal-services coordinator for the Whitman Walker Clinic in Washington. Sensitive to such charges and the mounting number of lawsuits, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners will meet in Orlando next week to consider volun tary guidelines that would, among other things, limit what questions may be asked of policy applicants. "To ask 'Have you ever been treated for AIDS?' would be appropriate," says Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Peter Gillies. "But not 'Are you a hairdresser...
After the rally, about 100 students occupied Munson Hall, which houses the university's public relations department. They had earlier attempted to enter the Whitman Administration Building but were blocked by police, who locked and chained the doors. Counter-protesters demonstrated outside the building...
...establishment now? "I've always been--from the point of view that Thoreau, Whitman, Williams is the American tradition. So that's one establishment, you might call it the hermetic establishment, the native establishment. Then there's an opposed, fake establishment that runs the money...
...That psychological consciousness...takes me in, it takes everybody in. Except every once in a while you wake up and realize--What did Walt Whitman say? `I find no fat sweeter than that which sticks to my own bones.' Like, I'm bigger than the government, the government is a loser, the government is a flake...