Word: whitmanic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
High Proficiency. According to Whitman, the scientific interest of the material is above all expectation. The U.S. has told a surprising lot. An interesting U.S. paper tells how scientists at Oak Ridge wanted to know what would happen if a nuclear reactor should get out of control. They built two, of different kinds, and let them rip. They blew up with clouds of steam, but not with anything like the violence of a true atomic explosion. Russia and Britain have told a lot, too, and the smaller nations have made manful contributions...
...thinking this globe enough till there sprang out so noiseless around me myriads of other globes." -Walt Whitman...
...formally entered the space age. By week's end, in millions of U.S. homes, the bright-eyed youngster with a space helmet in the closet and a space comic under his pillow was being listened to with new interest. Man seemed to be much closer to Whitman's eerie concept of other globes springing out noiseless from...
...wants to be a journalist, he can read a book on writing for "people who are just about average." He can rate his happiness on a Euphorimeter and check up on his psychological health by answering questions: "Are you plastic? Are you always able to fit in?" Author Whitman is a Nova Scotia-born magazine writer, wife of a teacher and mother of two grown children. On lecture tours, she has long attacked this slowly hardening concept of man as "a million divided by a million." Even a belief in the existence of the "common man" can be dangerous...
Readers of Social Scientist David Riesman (TIME. Sept. 27) will be familiar with many of Author Whitman's ideas and characters; her common man is first cousin to Riesman's other-directed individual, her ideal new man a reflection of his inner-directed person. But where earnest Author Riesman deals at length with economic and political behavior, romantic Author Whitman deals, no less earnestly, with man's inner life, the role of the mystic and of the church, the possibility of rebirth or of what Jung calls individuation. Riesman writes as a social scientist, describing and classifying...