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...resolution to support conscientious draft-resisters to the Vietnam war. I did in fact send in my signature, but perhaps too late for publication. May I ask that you now record my name as one of those in support of the Reverend Richard Mumma's statement. Cedric H. Whitman Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORE SUPPORT | 4/25/1968 | See Source »

...means explains why men take to the road. Within the hobo there usually lurked a slightly mad Huck Finn-a fellow with his own restless ideology. He was a tough, radical, reckless, sardonic character who was a hardbitten distant cousin to Walt ("I tramp a perpetual journey") Whitman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Road Tramp Blues | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

Marty Flusser, Terry Oxford, Steve Whitman, Clark Kawakami, Bill Ball, Michel Scheinmann, Mike Ezell, and Ted Wheeler (as an alternate) will make up Harvard's second unit on the Southern trip...

Author: By Patrick J. Hindert, | Title: Tennis Team Goes South To Open Uncertain Year | 3/21/1968 | See Source »

This week he is in Indiana doing a one-man Walt Whitman show, which he has already taken to 23 cities. Then it's back to Madison Avenue to do an other spot for Eastern. "Frankly," he says, in the voice that no one dares disbelieve, "I have more respect for the commercials I'm doing than some of the stuff that's on Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Commercials: The Voice from Brooklyn | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

...that has been written about William James, psychologist, philosopher, teacher and author, nothing as good as this full-length biography has appeared before. Author Allen, an English professor at New York University and a skilled biographer of Walt Whitman, presents James's complex character with the ease and clarity that distinguished his subject's own style. There is no understanding James's skeptical temperament without understanding his extraordinary family. Using unpublished papers, Allen weaves a rich account of the restless, tightly knit clan. As for William, his character is best expressed in his own words: "My first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Second Look | 12/29/1967 | See Source »

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