Word: worked
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...nation that ached for its own literature, Whitman contributed a poetic miracle, though not everyone at the time embraced him or his work with the same adulation as the well-established Emerson. In fact, many dismissed Leaves of Grass as an immoral book. Whitman himself never seemed entirely satisfied with the controversial collection, which he said allowed him to sound his "barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world...
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...
Dymally added that he's been involved with elections for 20 years and the only contest he ever lost was one where the public could not rely on a sample ballot. "You do all the work for a little ol' lady, hand her a sample ballot all filled out with a 'Democrat' signed at the bottom, and she goes in and votes...
...would think they could step in and help us increase our oil supply. But here we are providing heating oil at 40 per cent below market prices and not one person in the federal government has ever asked me about this program," he says. "We have something that can work if given the chance. I just don't know if we'll be given...
...Faculty committee members also recruited Fernandez for some security guard work. "I'm five-foot ten, but look a lot taller with the Afro, and I look like I lift weights," he says. So the committee placed Fernandez outside the doors of Holyoke Center, barring the way when SDS attempted to storm the building...