Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much of this sort of homespun philosophy-and an attack on Walt Whitman as a dirty-minded fellow-makes it pretty clear that Philosopher Lin Yutang is not the best man to evaluate the wisdom of America. Along with his own running commentary, he has gotten together a narcotic collection of bromides from reputable pens; if it proves anything, it proves only that a bromide looks a lot better clothed in a mandarin coat than it does in a Palm Beach suit...
...Douglas had proved that he generally knew what he was talking about. Like his better-known older brother, U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, he had always had to scratch hard. Art Douglas worked his way through Washington's Whitman College (1924), earned a law degree at Columbia University (1927). In a Manhattan law firm, he did so well that he caught the eye of the Statler Co., which hired him in 1937 as secretary-treasurer. Within two years he was executive vice president, became president...
...Whitman Abroad. Patria Mia does not sound as if it had been written, but as if it had been talked-between the hours of 2 and 4 a.m.. in a Bloomsbury attic. As with most such nocturnal monologues, which always seem dazzling in the dark, a lot of Pound's dicta could not survive the dawn; but some would stand up at high noon, e.g., his tribute to Walt Whitman: "One may not need him at home. It is in the air, this tonic of his. But if one is abroad; if one is ever likely to forget...
Residents of Radcliffe's Whitman Hall noticed a blank space on the dining room wall last week where there once had been a reproduction of an orangy-green Gaugin water color...
...resident aesthetes, dressed in bandit costumes, returned the Gauguin reproduction at dinner Monday night. The college has taken the masterpiece into custody. It will not be rehung in Whitman...