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Yale Law Professor Fred Rodell commented that the School is moving towards "orthodox conventionalist" by not promoting Countryman. A continuation of the same policy will make Yale Law "a third-rate school," he said...
...fundamental struggle between the traditional conservatism and the, to Whitman, mystical desire for social reform in the mind of the editor-poet is sharply, forcefully described by Mr. Arvin, who makes of him a dual personality. One part of Whitman is the government clerk, the traditionalist and the conventionalist; the other is the poet who instinctively fears for the future of democracy in an age of money-chasing, corrupt politicians, of oppressed industrial workers. On practically every social and political question, Whitman tends to diverge within himself. He writes paeans on the equality of all human beings, calls spiritedly...
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