Word: whitman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taken by Miss Anne Gallup '41, who claimed to be the daughter of Dr. George Gallup of the American Institute of Public Opinion, the poll was conducted in the five big Shepard Street dorms, Briggs, Eliot, Whitman, Bernard, and Cabot...
...smoke on an Illinois dirt road in November. Closely-knit to the material, it has almost none of the lyric blurring of The Prairie Years (where he wrote of Nancy Hanks as "sad with sorrow like dark stars in blue mist"). Because Sandburg has been compared often to Walt Whitman, his mature portrait of Walt is instructive: "Undersized, with graying whiskers, Quaker-blooded, softhearted, sentimental, a little crazy, this Walt Whitman sang to the war years, 'Rise O days, from your fathomless deeps...
...trained anatomist, Eakins painted figures from the skeleton out, tried to be just as searching in his portrayal of character. One of his few sitters who liked himself as Eakins saw him was Walt Whitman. "Eakins' picture grows on you," said sturdy Walt. "He is not a painter, he is a force." With sober force Eakins painted wrestlers, women knitting, river scenes, surgeons' clinics...
Last night similar meetings were held at the Union, on the question of "What Caused the Constitution?" and at Dunster House, where "Wait Whitman's America" was treated. The speakers were Henry Nash Smith and Charles Miller, American Civilization counselors...
...First six: Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Vachel Lindsay, Emily Dickinson, Edwin Arlington Robinson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...