Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drive a lot, but what's happened? There's someone off running the damn thing, as usual," a member of the opposition grumbled. Prophesied a representative from the dormitory most strongly critical of the fund campaign: "We're going to have one hell of a time collecting money from Whitman...
...masters and their wives will act as non-resident advisors for North House (Holmes, Moors, and Comstock halls), South House (Bertram, Bernard and Briggs Halls), and East House (Cabot, Whitman, Eliot and the three cooperative Houses), respectively...
...coed group of New Frontiersmen (among them: Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver, Deputy Defense Secretary Roswell Gilpatric), Bobby last month set up weekly night-school seminars presided over by Presidential Aide (and ex-Harvard historian) Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and State Department Counselor (and ex-M.I.T. economist) Walt Whitman Rostow. Dubbed "Hickory Hill University" after Bobby's McLean, Va., estate, the seminars involve homework of one book a week, and Rostow, exercising a professor's traditional prerogative, promptly assigned his own Emergence of Nations. Equally promptly. Bobby's wife Ethel exercised a student's traditional right...
...Literature, Suzanne G. Davol of Seville House and Greenwich, Conn., Fine Arts, Jane H. Fishburne of Jordan C and Arlington, Va., Anthropology, Barbara J. Friedberg of Comstock Hall and New York City, Mathematics, Julie E. Goldberg of Cabot Hall and Dallas, Texas, History and Literature, Martha B. Heineman of Whitman Hall and Chicago, III., English, and Mrs. Judith Arons Kates of Boston, History and Literature...
Only a very peculiar person would be aroused by a reading of Tropic of Cancer. In a famous (and highly favorable) review of the book, George Orwell called Miller a "Whitman among the corpses," and the phrase nicely conveys the real flavor of the novel. Parts of its are very funny, but in general--especially in sexual passages--Tropic is commenting on the death of the flesh in modern urban society...