Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...singing chorus is usually inarticulate, due partly to John Hollander's music; the dancing chorus, while legitimately formal, appears vapid against the strident actors; Cedric Whitman's translation hits the bump that jolts all colloquial renderings. The Greek dramatists are often not colloquial. They are, however, very, too, clever...
Although skillfully executed, Sallie Bingham's story about a devout Roman Catholic practising Christian Science somehow lacks interest. The Advocate's fragments of Professor Whitman's translation of The Alcestis, with their alliteration and charming metre, seem very well done. Aside from this, however, this issue's poetry is unexciting. Paul Flanigan has written a "pretty" sonnet, expressing Keatsian sentiments with rather abstract words. There is also another of Andre Gregory's hoaxes. This one is about a sea-walnut. John Ratte's cover is, as usual, architectural...
...fourth floor when the incident occurred claimed the students were shouting such phrases as "come down here" and "you killed my mother and I'll kill you," before Mercier fired the shots. They also said the three were "climbing trees and pounding on the doors of Eliot and Whitman...
...fourth floor when the incident occurred claimed the students were shouting such phrases as "come down here" and "you killed my mother and I'll kill you," before Mercier fired the shots. They also said the three were "climbing trees and pounding on the doors of Eliot and Whitman...
...Smith, has embedded a bale of fun among his footnotes. It is humbling stuff. If today's Pundit Walter Lippmann may be heard announcing Freud as "among the greatest who have contributed to thought," not so long ago President Garfield was having his "head read" and Walt Whitman was proudly reciting a poet's phrenological endowments in the preface to Leaves of Grass. Karl Marx took phrenology seriously, as did Bismarck and Darwin...