Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gavin, Lord Lovat, General Gunther Blumentritt, Frau Lucie-Maria Rommel. A few of the stars: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Richard Burton, Jean-Louis Barrault, Curt Jurgens, Robert Ryan, Rod Steiger, Robert Wagner, Richard Beymer, Mel Ferrer, Jeffrey Hunter, Peter Lawford, Kenneth More, Richard Todd, Leo Genn, Stuart Whitman, Eddie Albert, Edmond O'Brien, Red Buttons, Sal Mineo, Tommy Sands and Fabian...
...poured out in anger or tribute trace his lyrical journey through its mysteries. After his death, poets and critics were quick to speak of him as "the greatest innovator in modern poetry," as a man who perfected "the idiom of American common speech." Some placed him beside Thoreau and Whitman in "the pantheon of American letters." Cummings would have disliked the portentous phrase. He was not the sort of artist who can easily be put in any resounding literary hierarchy...
...grotesque, the book is a disordered Horatio Alger story: escape from a poor Brooklyn boyhood, as it might have been written by Harpo Marx and Hieronymus Bosch working together. Wild philosophic maunderings sprinkled with a self-taught man's self-conscious display of highfalutin' acquaintances (Bergson, Nietzsche. Whitman) proclaim Miller's belief in the sovereignty of the heart over the mind. A nearly endless series of appallingly anatomical boy-meets-girl grapplings sometimes suggests that sex is the mystic key to magical joy, but often offers it as an uproarious poolhall joke...
...something or beating it with my fists." Also, while still a schoolboy, he salutes the first intimations of his special vision of life, "feeling the beauty of everything, not excluding slop jars and foetuses-and a feeling of love for everything-and now I've run into Walt Whitman-and it seems as if I've dived into a sort of infinitudeof beautiful stuff...
...into three House centers this year and, tentatively and sometimes reluctantly, began to sponsor a variety of social and intellectual projects. South House, composed of Barnard, Bertram, and Briggs Halls, held an art show; North House (Comstock, Holmes, and Moors) invited Norman Thomas to speak; East House (Cabot, Eliot, Whitman, and the Jordan co-operatives) put on a production of George Bernard Show's Heart-break House...