Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finally, what about the readers? Citing Walt Whitman's remark that "To have great poets, there must be great audiences, too," Knopf suggests that a really great audience would pay its own way. He grumbles that "People who wouldn't dream of borrowing any other purchasable object feel no compunction about borrowing a book." But successful Businessman Knopf really is not much displeased with his customers' buying or reading habits: "By and large," he concludes, "the taste of the reading public is better than that of us who cater...
...Heroic Soul: Poems of Patriotism (Decca). One of the "Parnassus" series on such primary emotions as love, faith, humor and patriotism. This record tempers its heroics with taste, especially in Arnold Moss's reading of Whitman's When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd and Longfellow's The Building of the Ship...
Funds from the sales provide penicillin, tuberculosis vaccine and milk for the world's needy children. Cards can be ordered from Chartrand and from Myra Joseph '59 in Whitman Hall...
Molded Mandate. Still edited in Boston, the unorthodox, politically independent Atlantic has grown from a genteel gazette for Brahmins into a national monthly of moment that boasts more readers in California than in any Eastern state. From Walt Whitman to Archibald MacLeish, from Thoreau to Thornton Wilder, it has diligently cultivated the best U.S. writers of every decade since its founding. In its broader role as an exponent of the American idea, it has molded its mandate to the times and, at its best, brought to trie vital issues of the day that "nervous force" without which, as Atlantic Editor...
...showman about him--he didn't need to have." He had, Douglas Bush recalled at Perry's death in 1954, "bright blue eyes, a slow smile, a warm and selfless concern with literature and things humane." Perry wrote one of the first favorable biographies extant of Walt Whitman, and edited the Atlantic Monthly for almost ten years...