Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Helen Choate Bell Prize of $400, won by Alice A. Cooper '56 for "The Superb Monotony: A Study of the Experience and Writings of Wait Whitman...
...noon. Between articles Taylor has written seven books, on everything from Winston Churchill to W. C. Fields, also writes occasional fiction and is a regular contributor to The New Yorker.* Many another successful free-lancer carves out a specialized area for himself, e.g., J.D. Ratcliff, science and medicine, Howard Whitman, popular sociology. But even the "specialists" go far afield if they come across an article idea that interests them-and the editor of a magazine they write...
...Setting up his own school in upper Broadway's Lincoln Arcade, Henri attracted young art students in droves. Henri's school was unquestionably the liveliest art center in New York. Scoffing at "art for art's sake," Henri urged his students to plunge into life, read Whitman and Dostoevsky, go to see Isadora Duncan dance. Students like Guy Pène du Bois and Edward Hopper became Henri enthusiasts. So did Rockwell Kent. Assigned to paint Central Park, Kent is said to have spent the night sleeping on a park bench to get in the right mood...
...Hall: Paula Budlong '56 of Peru, Ill.; Moors Hall: Ann Haliman '56 of Moorestown, N.J.; Briggs Hall; Sally Huntington '56 of St. James, L.I., N.Y.; Barnard Hall; Evelyn Janover '56 of New York; Bertam Hall: Ellen Rome '56 of Glencoe, Ill.; Eliot Hall: Julie Harmon '56 of Irvington, N.Y.; Whitman Hall: Hope Rabb '56 of Newton; Cabot Hall: Anne Martignette '56 of Brighton; Edmunds House. Nancy Richardson '56 of Arlington...
...summary discussion of the great amount of poetry in this issue would be as presumptuous as it would be useless. Lyon Phelps, Angus Fletcher, Ruth Whitman, and Hugh Amory have made contributions which will in some cases richly repay close reading. I cannot omit mentioning, however, the thrill of discovery which I have experienced in the course of my readings of Mr. Amory's Lieder and his Prothalamium. I find them the most exquisite and successful achievements in the magazine. That the Lieder have probed so centrally into a relationship, that the Prothalamium attains a ritual by means of manifold...