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...foundation also announced that David G. Mitten, Loeb Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology, will compile a handbook of Greek and Roman bronze sculptures, and Cedric H. Whitman '38, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, will write a commentary on "the Iliad" during their tenure next year as fellows
Gutsy Actor. The kind of nerve that raises modest hopes for the medium is, however, available on two other specials. Song of Myself (CBS, Tuesday, 10 p.m. E.S.T.) offers a sketchy biography of Walt Whitman, which is really an excuse to hear a well-selected anthology of his poetry. Poetry in any form is rare on commercial television, and just hearing Whitman well read in a Carl Sandburg singsong by Rip Torn is reason enough for gratitude. But Jan Hartman's script confronts Whitman's homosexuality with good bluntness, and Torn, a gutsy actor who has long deserved...
Ezra Pound was a contradictory civilization of one. He was the most original American poet since Walt Whitman, a magically imaginative translator, and a literary promoter nonpareil. He also produced more verbal trash than any other great writer of modern times, wasted decades advancing crackpot schemes for monetary reform, railed disgracefully at "kikes, sheenies and the oily people," called Hitler "a saint" and democracy a "swindle," betrayed his country during World War II, and in old age spiraled down through hells of paranoia...
...Whitman said the press intends to publish an anthology of undergraduate fiction, a book on French gestures by Laurence C. Wylie, C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France, and Rick Stafford, a photographer for the University News Office, and a guide for job-hunting entitled, "Is There Life After Harvard...
...Whitman said the press, which presently has 18 active members, plans a spring competition to attract more interested students...