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...river has its romance. Explorers once thought it could provide a quick path to China. Walt Whitman said the Mediterranean was its only rival in grandeur. T.S. Eliot, who was born in St. Louis, was surely inspired by the Mississippi when he referred to a river in his poem The Dry Salvages as "a big strong brown god." But poetry isn't appropriate at times like these. "You can't say the river is very charitable," says a tract attributed to Mark Twain, perhaps the Mississippi's most famous observer. "Except for the fact that the streets are quiet . . ., there...
...Jersey another very rich Republican, Christine Todd Whitman, won the gubernatorial primary. In November she will face Democratic Governor Jim Florio, who became the object of Jerseyites' intense loathing after a $2.8 billion tax increase in 1990. A former state utilities regulator and a moderate, Whitman nearly beat New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley in an election three years ago by tying him to Florio. "We're going to be Florio-free," Whitman promises...
...from the public stage back into the ivory tower to think through the practical implications of his ideas, while sustaining himself with books, the black church and sweet soul music. Meanwhile, friends say, West has read biographies of the great public intellectuals of the past -- Emerson, Thomas Carlyle, Walt Whitman, Matthew Arnold -- to prepare for the highly visible role that is being thrust upon him, not entirely against his will. After all, if a philosopher like West can't be philosophical about success...
...husband's purported infidelity moaning that "he has forsaken my aging flesh for-for what? To lose him to some exquisite little girl with long hair flicking like a horse's mane, a student drawn to him and he to her, intoxicated with the wine dark words of Walt Whitman, yes, okay, that's as it should be." Since when does turning 30 signal the onset of senescence? Admittedly, there is a certain fragility to women's social status as they age, but this tends to be counteracted by the rewards of a rich and fulfilling professional life...
...Walt Whitman once wrote, "From the clasp of the knitted locks, from the keep of the well-closed doors, let me be wafted...