Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Agnes de Mille's new ballet takes off from the Walt Whitman line: "Life, life is the tillage/And death is the harvest according." Choreographer de Mille works out her ideas in three scenes, "Birth," "Games" and "The Harvest," the last in a Civil War setting. The ballet critics were giving it mixed notices ("A great new ballet," said the Herald Tribune. "Just run of de Mille," cracked the Daily News). But audiences seemed to like its romping "Games" scene and its suddenly gripping finale, where the heroine finds herself mateless and alone in a crowd of reunited soldiers...
...Katherine Mann, assigned to Whitman Hall...
...housemothers of Barnard and Whitman recently retired...
...found that Argentine textbooks were shot through with excerpts from the works of Benjamin Franklin, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Browning, Grimm, Schiller and Turgenev-all subversive influences, in the Peronista view. "A repulsive state of affairs," declared the governor. He named a committee to scourge the foreign authors from the schoolbooks. "The schools," he decreed, "must teach the child the mysticism, the soul and the sentiment of Peronismo...
...West Virginia University's Wilson Porter Shortridge, 71, professor of American history and since 1929 dean of the college of arts and sciences. His new assignment: Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash...