Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sharp example of Europe's mood came last week when Walt Whitman Rostow, chairman of the State Department's policy planning board, journeyed to Paris to explain Washington's new economic boycott of Fidel Castro's Cuba to the NATO Council-and to urge the U.S.'s allies to impose similar bans on shipments of strategic goods to Havana. Rostow's motives were harshly criticized. Asked the Dutch: Why should we embargo sales of arms to Castro when the U.S. is furnishing Indonesia's Sukarno with guns? Headlined the London Times sarcastically...
...poetry," reading the works of French and German authors during a stay in Europe. But paradoxically he was finally "swept off my feet" by a German translation of the poetry of Walt Whitman, who, as Borges put it, "did what the others (Shakespeare, Swinburne, et al) had tried...
Borges decided that he wanted his future readers to know that he was not one of the writers "before and after Whitman" who had tried without succeeding. Part of his effort was to avoid "dazzling and surprising" his readers. He tried to "let my things write themselves...
...sycophants" who insist on it. Some of his other opinions are equally unfashionable: there is no reason, says Harris, why symphonic music should not try to express specific, literal themes. Now that he has finally put St. Francis on paper, he plans to finish a symphony on Walt Whitman and an oratorio on the life of Christ...
...narration is introduced by a stilted device: the narrator is the guardian angel (or conscience) of the woman, and he chats with her like a second-rate Whitman. The woman herself, Barbara Boxley, is a good actress, but her role is so uneven and inconsistent that she cannot make much...