Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With this anthem on their lips, sung to the tune of "Three Blind Mice," 66 of 74 residents in Radcliffe's Whitman Hall marched to "The Campus Del." last night...
...immediate cause of the insurgency was Whitman's evening menu, which scheduled chili con carne and prune whip. Most of Whitman's residents, remembering their luncheon of "puppies delight" (a form of hash), decided to eat else-where...
This "humanitarian feeling," from which all of Dreiser's best work flowed, is an often incoherent sympathy--of Whitman-like proportions--for the poor and the weak. It reaches its fullest expression in his documentary account of the murder trial of Clyde Griffiths in "An American Tragedy." In the best chapter of the book, Matthiessen analyses this novel both in the light of its own time and in relation to the rest of American literature. He ends by agreeing with Joseph Wood Krutch's estimate that it is "the great American novel of our generation...
...critic, Matthiessen was preoccupied with greatness. His books were addressed to the peaks of American literary achievement--to the work of Emerson, Whitman, Melville, Henry James, and T. S. Eliot. Whether or not Dreiser belongs in this group will depend, perhaps, on the events and attitudes of the future, but this study is an able statement of the case for the affirmative...
Doris Fine: Whitman; N.S.A.; Choral...