Word: whitmans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
August 1, 1966: Austin, Texas Charles Whitman points a rifle from the observation deck of the University of Texas at Austin's Tower and begins shooting in a homicidal rampage that goes on for 96 minutes. Sixteen people are killed, 31 wounded...
...scientists who are in favor of doing something on greenhouse gases are in the majority," says Republican Congressman James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin. But when your last good position is to debate the difference between certain and extra certain, you're playing a losing hand. "The science," says Christine Todd Whitman, former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (epa), "now is getting to the point where it's pretty hard to deny." Indeed it is. Atmospheric levels of CO2 were 379 parts per million (p.p.m.) in 2005, higher than at any time in the past 650,000 years...
Modern American culture was dawning too. Walt Whitman and Nathaniel Hawthorne had started work on Leaves of Grass and The Scarlet Letter, respectively, and Herman Melville was preparing to write Moby Dick. Henry David Thoreau, laying the groundwork for environmentalism, was altogether disgusted by the new Zeitgeist and gimcracks. "I delight to come to my bearings," he writes in Walden, which he began in the late '40s, "not walk in procession with pomp and parade, in a conspicuous place ... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sit thoughtfully while it goes by. What...
...support of her argument, she quotes Marianne Moore’s “England” in saying that excellence “has never been confined to a single locality.” Vendler says that Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman became two of the greatest American poets of the 19th century despite not having college degrees...
...Whitman’s poetry, only to undercut it by showing Whitman’s grittier side. For Trachtenberg, the poet is not merely a man of nature, but also a man of the urban environment who wrote about dead prostitutes in the street. Trachtenberg’s Whitman is a complex figure, less important as a poet than as a witness to his flawed culture. Trachtenberg’s work is difficult for even the most advanced college reader. He doesn’t always ground the critics and artists he references—names and ideas float...