Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just how terrible a time the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe had with her children can be vividly illustrated by the statement that she had as many struggling brats as Walt Whitman had unruly ideas. The analogy becomes quite compelling after one has read this discussion of the politico-social ideas of Walt Whitman, in which Mr. Arvin makes it quite clear that the poet's mind was filled by the most numerous and most contradictory feelings on almost every conceivable subject. Mr. Arvin, who graduated from Harvard in 1921, although he does display an admirable understanding...
This vital and fundamental struggle between the traditional conservatism and the, to Whitman, mystical desire for social reform in the mind of the editor-poet is sharply, forcefully described by Mr. Arvin, who makes of him a dual personality. One part of Whitman is the government clerk, the traditionalist and the conventionalist; the other is the poet who instinctively fears for the future of democracy in an age of money-chasing, corrupt politicians, of oppressed industrial workers. On practically every social and political question, Whitman tends to diverge within himself. He writes paeans on the equality of all human beings...
...Arvin avoids doing what many biographers have done to their subjects. He does not go too far in evaluating the contemporary comment and criticism voiced by the socialists of Whitman's period in an attempt to illuminate the attitudes of Whitman himself. He does not make of Whitman an intellectually unified individual at the expense of verity, he does not even make him an intellectual in the restricted sense of the term. For once a biographer has finished his work without creating a god or devil out of the subject. Whitman was neither a radical nor a reactionary...
...victories, the Houses made a clean sweep of their games with the Yale colleges on Friday afternoon. Lowell beat Pierson 14-0 in a game featured by the two brilliant runs of Mel Gordon. The Adams House contingent defeated Saybrook 7-0 on a pass from Lewis to Whitman. Eliot House won its first and only game of the season by winning from Jonathan Edwards 6-0 with Donahue making the touchdown. The Dudley Hall Ramblers beat Timothy Dwight 7-5 in their touch-football game...
...starting lineup for Adams is: ends, Bixby and Akerson; tackles, Dorfman and Maisel; guards, Counihan and Kingman; center, Updegraff; quarter-back, Captain Lucey; halfbacks, Lewis and Clark; and Whitman, fullback...