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Last night Walt Whitman had the strangest dream. There he was, staring out his bedroom window, when who should hop in but Huck Finn, itching to travel. "Dress warmly," Walt's dead mom told him. And we're off to see Louisa May Alcott, who's having an affair with a Tahitian prince. Over there's Charlotte Cushman, the noted actress, playing Hamlet to Emily Dickinson's Ophelia; they become co-stars and lovers. Old Ralph Waldo Emerson is having a chat with the dead Henry David Thoreau: "Sex can be messy...
...draft, the bishops heard from some 125 experts, ranging from theologians to business and labor leaders. Their testimony sometimes strongly influenced the letter. For example, committee members had been leaning toward a call for strong Government economic planning before hearing that approach sharply criticized by Marina von Neumann Whitman, chief economist for General Motors. After Whitman spoke, one panelist said, "Well, there goes the emphasis on central planning...
...opposition to the campaign State Son Edward P Katz Whitman said yesterday and others like it are manipulative. He said the questions are phrased in misleader ship ways, making use of "unstated assumptions...
Eric H. Strassmann '85, a Whitman Hall Biochemistry concentrator, reportedly slipped and fell while taking a shower on Thursday May 24, rendering himself unconscious, While unconscious, he apparently drowned in a few inches of water...
...think the thing we remember most about him is interest in helping people," said Hugh M. Flick, a Whitman Hall tutor. "He's the type of person that, if another student had died, he would have been the one other students would have gone to to make sense...