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...Free Song," the world premiere of which was given in Symphony Hall last Saturday evening, is a musical adaptation of some of Walt Whitman's poetry. Paul D. Tibbetts '45 will take the role of male narrator...
...honor, to write the first full-length biography of Willard Gibbs. (She explains, "The world of the poet ... is the scientist's world. Their claim on systems is the same claim. Their writings anticipate each other; welcome each other; indeed embrace. As Lucretius answered Epicurus, Gibbs answers Whitman. . . .") The result is a book frequently verging on the apocalyptical in language; a Moby Dick of a book in intention and intimations, touching on "the sum of things...
...G.B.S. A Full Length Portrait ($3.50), which recorded many unfamiliar details of George Bernard Shaw's childhood and lovelife. Others were Esther Forbes's conscientious, overlong Paul Revere and the World He Lived In ($3.75); Hugh 1'Anson Fausset's erratic but illuminating Walt Whitman ($3); Poetess Muriel Rukeyser's fervent celebration of the famously forgotten great man of science Willard Gibbs ($3.50) ; Franz Werfel's Verdi: the Man in His Letters...
Cornelius Lansing '45, Richard H. MacNeal '44, Walter F. Rogers, Jr. '43, Lionel A. Schwartz '43, Donald H. Shively '44, Robert A. Shwitzer '45, Henry B. Silsbee '43, Louis E. Smart '45, Donald F. Waterman '43, Herbert M. Weiner '43, Gerald H. Whipple '43, Cedric H. Whitman ocC, Konrad P. Wise '45, Leonard Wolsky '44, John A. Wood...
Like his masses, Whitman lacked the self-mastery, the intelligence and the creative idea whereby true democracy becomes possible. He glimpsed "the necessity of bringing the moral sense into a new relation with intelligence," but he could "only link them loosely and hopefully together." He vaguely foresaw "the basic problem of democracy, that of reintegrating the individual in a social whole and converting a semiconscious mass into a community of responsible persons," but "he overlooked the cost of integration, as he had overlooked it in himself." And "his lack of insight into the nature of imagination and the spiritual cost...