Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moore described Tropic as the "adventures of an American in Paris," and compared Miller's anarchic individualism with that of Whitman, Emerson, or Thoreau. "Its seamier passages reflect the life of real people," he told Judge Goldberg: "If this book is obscene, then life is obscene...
...money recieved from the sale of Longfellow will be used to further the reorganization of the College into house centers. This year students affiliated with Holmes. Moors, and Comstock will belong to North house; those in Cabot, Whitman, Eliot, and the new Wilbur K. Jordan co-operative house will be in East house; Briggs, and Barnard will form South house...
...patience with the U.S.-"The only America I like is the America of Whitman, Thoreau and Emerson, and that never really existed"-scatological Novelist Henry (Tropic of Cancer) Miller, 69, slipped into London making noises about chucking it all. "If I had my time over again," he confided, "I wouldn't be a writer or an artist or anything like that. I'd be a shoemaker, a fisherman or something humble. Nowadays our work has no relation to our lives. It's stulti fying. All work is degrading, demoralizing and crushing to the individual...
...Actor Whitman plays Vivaldi on a penny whistle and tries to look like Pan, but unhappily he looks more like Peter Pan. Juliet Prowse looks like Leslie Caron with muscles and, perhaps because she is a native of South Africa, also looks ashamed of the mess she's in. Massey is gassy. The only object of real interest on the screen is Rafer Johnson, the Olympic decathlon champion, here appearing in his big Hollywood role. Most of the time...
Actor Johnson just stands in the corner of the screen, as far as possible from the hero-when they stand together. Whitman looks sort of puny. When at last somebody speaks to him. Johnson looks startled, makes a reply that does not appear in the script...