Word: springly
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JUST AS WHITMAN spent a lifetime reordering words and poems in his own work, so Kaplan's biography seems marked by rearrangement. The author devised a scheme highly appropriate to the life of his subject. The book opens in the spring of 1884 with a tired and white-bearded Whitman, who has just purchased a house in unlovely (Kaplan's word) Camden, N.J. This is the Whitman who splashes in the bathtub, sleeps late, and depends on a cane to move around. In the second chapter, Kaplan describes Whitman's last days. The rest of the biography takes Whitman...
...Club, was the star of the meet as she captured three individual first places in the 1000-yd. freestyle, 200-yd. backstroke and 50-yd. backstroke. Palmer's time of 27.92 in the 50-yd. back was fast enough to qualify her for the AIAW National swimming championships next spring, and her time of 2:09.0 in the 200-yd. backstroke put her well under the Eastern Seaboard Championship cutoff...
Harvard first sent eviction notices to tenants of the 16-unit apartment house in early January of 1979. Residents of the building won the right to stay for at least a few more months during the spring of 1979 after the board ruled that several had valid leases...
...demonstration outside Holyoke Center that Wheeler participated in later in the spring, sealed her fate. The protesters were wearing paper bags with Dean Ernest R. May's face sketched on the front. May began walking up to students and lifting masks, including hers, Wheeler recalls. The CRR subsequently suspended...
...Lost Letters, two The Angels). They all revolve around a small set of preoccupations: the burden of the past and the limits of the healing power of laughter. Time is measured back and forth from the year 1968, when the growing freedom of the Czech people, the fabled Prague Spring, was crushed by the Soviets: "Russian tanks invaded Bohemia." Recent history was revised downward, and those who had been prominent in pushing reforms (including Kundera) found themselves officially erased into nonpersons. Observes one character: "The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past...