Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scientists believe in God? Most of them do, concludes Reporter Howard Whitman after a cross-country tour of the nation's laboratories...
There are skeptics, of course, Whitman concedes in an article in the current issue of Collier's. But the majority of scientists, like Newton, consider themselves children playing on the seashore while the ocean of truth lies undiscovered in the distance...
...older scientists, reported Whitman, have the deepest spiritual awareness. "Most of them had gone through the phase of agnosticism. They had moved on." Said one elderly geneticist: "When we think we know a lot, we're agnostic. When we learn how insignificant our knowledge is-we return to God." It is the cocksure youngster in the laboratory, Whitman found, who says, "How wonderful I am! Look what I've found in the atom!" The old man says, "Isn't God wonderful-look what He's put in the atom...
...entirety, Paterson makes a bold bid for attention as one of the few important long poems written in the aoth Century U.S.; it may evoke comparison with Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Is Paterson a successful poem or an uneven performance, with alternating passages of beauty and incoherence? Well, they're still arguing about Whitman...
Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker seized the occasion of the 132nd anniversary of Walt Whitman's birth to claim him as its very own. "How," cried the Worker, "could the Philistine rulers of capitalist culture stomach an artist who took the side of the people and who dared, despite the heavy penalties of poverty, censorship, and the deprivation of a wide audience, to tell the truth about the organized thievery that passes for the Two-Party System...