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After graduating summa cum laude from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash. in 1978, she worked as a teller at a local bank and three months later parlayed her one college computer course into a job in the computer section the bank was forming. Less than a year later, she was asked to become head of the operation. But she decided to study linguistics at Harvard instead. "Four years of Walla Walla was all anyone could stand," she explains...
...Editor Rosenthal: "Sometimes he goes too far on innuendo, even for a columnist." For example, on very scant evidence, Safire has unfairly suggested that Senator John Glenn is anti-Israel. He couples such impetuousness with a merry disregard for consistency. He quotes with self-satisfaction a line from Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: "Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself...
Kaplan's narratives, like William Manchester's in his monumental, novelistic American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur (1978), are logical, not chronological. Kaplan does not, for example, begin his recent Walt Whitman: A Life, with the poet's birth. Instead, the bard is introduced at age 65, broken and disabled by a stroke, buying his first house in seedy Camden, N.J. His brother George is angered by those "whorehouse" poems. Whitman responds, "I just did what I did because I did it-that's the whole secret." "You're as stubborn as hell," George says...
...researching a biography of Charlie Chaplin, the author is usually found in the comfortable Cambridge, Mass., home he shares with his wife, Novelist Anne Bernays. His study is littered with dolls, posters and memorabilia of "the Little Tramp." Why a film figure? Like Twain and Whitman, he believes "Chaplin rightly thought he was creating a new kind of language." The new languages need an interpreter: "You hope to be on the inside of your subject, but also hold a distance from him," Kaplan says. But sometimes it does not work that way. "I once dreamed that Walt Whitman was pursuing...
...think he may very well decide to veto this measure," Sen. Edward P. Kirby, (R-Whitman), said, arguing against the change...