Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reeves' orchestra will play from 8 p.m. to 12 p.m. in Barnard, Briggs, Cabot, and Whitman Halls. Tickets go no sale the first week in December...
...lyrics, sung to familiar melodies, were, as usual, varied--some dirty, some very dirty. Contingents from two dormitories. Cabot and Whitman, were attired in hillbilly costumes, and the residents of Moors tried to pass themselves off as a choral society...
...knack for composing a word picture that is sharp yet has the distracting detail cropped away. He has the modern poet's virtue of fashioning simple sentences with simple words. For instance he says of his first book. "The poems were bad Keats, nothing else--oh well, bad Whitman too. But I sure loved them. Where does a young man get the courage for such abortions? I can tell you my need must have been great. There is not one thing of the slightest value in the whole thin booklet--except the intent...
Drum Taps, by Walt Whitman (Nov. 22, 1865): "Mr. Whitman . . . has no ear, no sense of the melody of verse . . . fortunately [he has] better claims on the gratitude of his countrymen than any he will ever derive from his vocation as a poet . . . His duties in the hospitals at Washington during the war will confer honor on his memory when Leaves of Grass are withered and Drum Taps have ceased to vibrate...
...born on Staten Island in 1862-the rebellious daughter of a staid Republican-was descended from revolutionary soldiers and related to Reconstructionist Thaddeus Stevens. She had met Walt Whitman, Henry Ward Beecher and Robert Ingersoll. Thrice married, she was the mother of six children, wrote children's books. She was 57 when she joined the Communist Party in 1919, certain that it could be an instrument for good...