| 单词 | Walt Whitman |
| 例句 | In thin black pen, the song title “Walt Whitman’s Niece” had been circled. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Beside him on the desk lay an open copy of Walt Whitman’s famous book of poems Leaves of Grass. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “But we were just saying that Walt Whitman was from New York.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z The only thing that makes sense to me is what Walt Whitman said about death: “Look for me under your boot soles.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He reads Walt Whitman’s poetry, which speaks to him of God in nature, of the future, of eternity. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I was reminded by Walt Whitman to think of the past, and I awaited “The Fire Next Time” with James Baldwin. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z And it reminds me of a line from a Walt Whitman poem my dad sometimes whispers to my mom: There we two, content, happy in being together, speaking little, perhaps not a word. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “Walt Whitman’s Niece” was the first song on side two. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z As I slung it over one shoulder and started to leave, Dr. Holden smiled at me and said, “Walt Whitman, huh?” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z I spent the little free time I had reading Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass and memorizing a poem for English and keeping up with current events by reading the daily newspaper for my history class. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Whatever the name, they were varied enough to have pleased Walt Whitman. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Back in October, I got him to try pineapple on his pizza, and got him hooked on Walt Whitman. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z But this one time we were studying Walt Whitman and his feelings of being helpless or the futility of life or something. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Inspired by Walt Whitman’s dictum “Resist much, obey little,” Abbey became an aggressive watchdog of Arches and the surrounding Utah canyonlands held sacred by the Hopi, Navajo, Ute and Pueblo of Zuni tribes. President Trump, Please Read ‘Desert Solitaire’ 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z On Sunday at 3 p.m., right after the Brooklyn performance, families can also enjoy the National Grid Earth Day Celebration on the plaza outside the Walt Whitman Theater. Spare Times for Children for April 4-10 2014-04-03T22:56:28Z A latter-day Thoreau with a dash of Walt Whitman and Carl Sandburg, he celebrated simple pleasures and ordinary people. David Budbill, a Poet of Small-Town Vermont, Dies at 76 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z He cited Walt Whitman as a significant influence. Award-winning author Denis Johnson dies at age 67 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Just across the Columbia River from Portland, however, you can spend a few hours touring the grow operation of farmer Tom Lauerman, the “Walt Whitman of weed,” in Bush Prairie, Washington. Your Guide to Marijuana Tourism in America 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sold 756 copies in its first year, to put that in perspective. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Talks 12 Years a Slave and The African Americans 2013-10-22T17:35:56Z Walt Whitman, a radical advocate of self-expression and equality, was the progenitor who created the conditions for cool to be born by exalting personal experience. Museums Special Section: In Washington, 100 Examples of the Epitome of Cool 2014-03-19T20:36:17Z The show opens with Walt Whitman and maps the evolution of language from the first example of free verse in "Leaves of Grass." Portrait Gallery features faces of nation's poets 2012-10-12T11:46:04Z Walt Whitman, who knew Wilde but had died in 1892, acts as a spectral master of ceremonies, philosophizing in a prologue and commenting intermittently throughout. Music Review: ‘Oscar,’ at Santa Fe Opera, With David Daniels, Countertenor 2013-08-01T21:53:47Z The text is a Walt Whitman poem, a reflection on tending sick and wounded soldiers during the Civil War. A Singer for Whom Words Always Came First 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Perhaps if Garner had instead said “included in The Atlantic’s April 1904 issue, an essay, written by Walt Whitman during his lifetime …” that would have been more accurate. Walt Whitman, Parenting Books and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Multiple strokes left him wheelchair-bound and infirm, but he spent countless hours talking with Horace Traubel, who transcribed their conversations for a nine-volume, 6,000-page collection called “With Walt Whitman in Camden.” How Opera Inspired Walt Whitman’s ‘Leaves of Grass’ 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z He was explaining the history of Pfaff’s, a German beer cellar that opened in 1859 at 647 Broadway and counted Walt Whitman among its bohemian regulars who sought the company of other men. You Could Be in a Gay Bar Right Now and Not Even Know It 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Coastal nations worldwide bought them, and writers including Herman Melville and Walt Whitman visited new installations. Antiques: The Fall of Gnomes: Tasteful to Tacky 2013-05-30T20:04:26Z To this end, the host reads a few lines from Walt Whitman’s poem “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” about the beauty of being alone in a crowd: Theater Is in the Streets of New York, if You Listen 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z On Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m., a group of writers and others will read from Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” from the 1891 edition of his “Leaves of Grass.” Spare Times for April 26-May 2 2013-04-25T22:32:14Z The coalition pointed out that Green’s book is often taught in conjunction with Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass,” which is an important text within the novel. Florida school nixes John Green's 'Paper Towns,' prompts outcry 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z In the poem "Song of Myself," Walt Whitman wrote of a writer's need to embrace apparently irreconcilable points of view: "Do I contradict myself?" wrote Whitman. Once a Hanford engineer, now Washington's poet laureate 2012-04-02T02:01:16Z Like Walt Whitman, another hard-to-classify embodiment of the spirit of New York, he is contradictory and multitudinous. Movie Review: ‘Koch,’ Neil Barsky’s Documentary on the Former Mayor 2013-01-31T16:55:40Z Three of Mahler’s “Wunderhorn” lieder were premonitions, blanched with fear; Weill’s “Four Walt Whitman Songs” had ferocious power; selections from Britten’s “Who Are These Children?” sneered with pacifist righteousness. Reviews: Ian Bostridge, Tenet and Tallis Scholars in Performance 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z Program material and stage action strongly imply that the artist is Walt Whitman, though we’re at liberty to see aspects of Mr. Taylor there too. Paul Taylor: Return of the Beloved Renegade 2010-02-19T16:07:00Z His Athenaeum show, “Memorial Leaves,” uses plant and tree leaves to make new prints of historical photos related to the Civil War and one of its most famous witnesses, Walt Whitman. Review | In the galleries: Photos capture a fleeting moment, leave an indelible impression 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z “He is as transcendent a cultural icon as Frank Sinatra, as adventurous a self-made billionaire as Mark Zuckerberg, as gifted a poet as Walt Whitman.” Review | In Michael Eric Dyson’s new book, Jay-Z is the living embodiment of American ideals 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z The exception came in Jerome Kitzke’s “There Is a Field,” a highly theatrical work incorporating readings of Rumi poetry and Walt Whitman texts about the Civil War along with shouts and percussive effects. Critic?s Notebook: A Mistress of Voltaire, Set to Video 2011-06-05T22:05:53Z He never completely left the blue-collar life behind, as he wrote about a world of sweat and sinew seldom seen in American poetry since Carl Sandburg or even Walt Whitman. Philip Levine, U.S. poet laureate who wrote of working life, dies at 87 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Ford, as I mentioned above; and of course Walt Whitman is pretty good. Bruce Springsteen: By the Book 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z He immersed himself in the poetry of Walt Whitman and popular American histories. Review | These ‘missing’ Jacob Lawrence paintings are finally in a museum — and they’re masterpieces 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z I follow the prophet Walt Whitman: I contain multitudes, and I contradict myself whenever I choose to. The “Goosebumps” Conundrum: What Makes a Children’s Book Good? 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Bellows waved no flags, and had no use for Walt Whitman's urban pantheism. George Bellows: Modern American Life – review 2013-03-17T00:05:47Z I checked the April 1904 issue of The Atlantic and found an essay by Walt Whitman that the magazine had published. Walt Whitman, Parenting Books and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Walt Whitman, while not an especially strong reader, was nonetheless captivated by the idea of a “call in the midst of the crowd,/ My own voice, orotund sweeping and final.” Poetry in Performance in New York 2011-10-06T22:17:39Z Walt Whitman, in his poem “Year of Meteors,” found something lyrical in the dry information being culled across the country. How the Census Changed America 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z Miranda turns the story of our nation’s birth into a singing drama that channels and celebrates, in the words of Walt Whitman, “the varied carols” of our democratic experience. 'Hamilton' brings its tale of American idealism to L.A. at a moment when it's needed 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z I really do believe that Walt Whitman quote—I think it’s from Song of Myself—where he says, “Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.” Why Showtime's The Affair Will Be as Intense as Game of Thrones 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z I and You L.A premiere of Lauren Gunderson’s drama about teenage students plumbing the mysteries of a Walt Whitman poem. L.A. theater openings, April 5-12: 'I and You' and more 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z A third highlight was "The Public Road," a cappella settings of verse by Walt Whitman, sung by Sara Edwards & the People's Grand Opera. NW New Works: wildly uneven but with glorious highlights 2012-06-11T17:02:04Z He was also the author of a memoir, "Misgivings," a book about Walt Whitman, translations of "The Bacchae" and Sophocles, and the essay collections "Poetry and Consciousness" and "In Time." Award-winning poet C.K. Williams dies at 78 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z In his tribute to Walt Whitman, he writes, “A poem read aloud is by its nature a vision of its nature.” A great poet, even without James Franco’s endorsement 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z The title poem of his collection “Six Children” takes its title from a line from Walt Whitman, who wrote, “Though unmarried I have had six children.” ‘Selected Poems,’ by Mark Ford, Covers a Career 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z His poetry collection “Fellow Feelings” was a tribute to such artists as Walt Whitman and Marcel Proust and his later works included several elegies for friends who died of AIDS. Richard Howard, acclaimed poet-translator, dies at 92 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z The playwright, screenwriter, actor and drag performer has inhabited at least as many personalities as Walt Whitman. In a New Memoir, Harvey Fierstein Shares Gossip and Regrets 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z We begin with Walt Whitman, with a soaring overture to America and a dream of national belonging — which the narrator methodically dismantles in the virtuosic chapters that follow. The 10 Best Books of 2020 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z In the movie: “There’s significantly less textual analysis of Walt Whitman in the movie,” Green said in his April video. These Are the Biggest Differences Between The "Paper Towns" Movie and Book 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z It was a work of enormous talent, exciting promise and considerable hubris: Mr. Aucoin wrote his own libretto, inventing a story about Walt Whitman’s work with wounded soldiers during the Civil War. Review: ‘Eurydice,’ a New Opera, Looks Back All Too Tamely 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z It's the scene where he writes on the chalkboard, "I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world," which is a Walt Whitman quote. A Minute With: Ethan Hawke on lessons from Robin Williams 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z And the local librarian, who has allegedly corrupted both boys by offering them a copy of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, is arraigned in the front parlour in a gruesome parody of the McCarthy witch-hunt. Personal Enemy 2010-06-29T22:20:00Z We’re a people, Walt Whitman crooned, “singing, with open mouths,” our “strong melodious songs.” The Case for Covering Your Ears in Noisy Times 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z Now, he’s moved from the Founding Fathers on the $1 and $10 bills to the Civil War victor on the fifty, a man adored by Walt Whitman and Mark Twain. How do you top ‘Hamilton’? Author Ron Chernow is about to find out. 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z American life asks us to pick a lane and stay put, but like Walt Whitman before her, Cardi B contains multitudes to spare. Review | Everything Cardi B says is music 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z No detail is left dangling; if the hospital is named for Walt Whitman, the Good Gray Poet will eventually, and a bit laboriously, be woven into the material. Review: In ‘Chester Bailey,’ a Case of Physician, Shrink Thyself 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z In addition to poems, Mr. Grossman wrote widely on poetics and published essays on Milton, Hart Crane, Wordsworth, Walt Whitman and Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, among other subjects. Allen Grossman, a Poet’s Poet and Scholar, Dies at 82 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z As his literary ancestor Walt Whitman would say, it’s a “barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.” Review | Lawrence Ferlinghetti is about to turn 100, and he hasn’t mellowed. At all. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z In 1961-62, he declared his bond with his literary past by stenciling sentences onto his paintings from canonical novels and poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Walt Whitman and Herman Melville. Robert Indiana’s Best: A Mini Retrospective 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z In 1996, Mr. Walker, now 92, became the first black composer to win a Pulitzer Prize, for “Lilacs,” a short piece for soprano and orchestra based on a poem by Walt Whitman. Review: Pairing Beethoven With George Walker at Mannes College 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z In 1996, Dr. Walker won the Pulitzer Prize for “Lilacs,” a commission from the Boston Symphony Orchestra that set portions of Walt Whitman’s Lincoln elegy “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d.” A Composer’s Final Work Contains ‘Visions’ of an American Master 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Then Graham starts reciting Verse 37 of Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself.” Reciting Walt Whitman at a Drug Court in Alabama 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Walt Whitman, strolling across the bridge in a multitudinous mood. Past Meets Present In Walk After Dark 2011-07-14T23:01:30Z His ideas about divinity seem, at times, more poetic than religious; toward the end of the book, he devotes many pages to Walt Whitman and Wallace Stevens. The Sage of Yale Law 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z When, late in life, he falsely claimed to have fathered six children, he was talking more about Walt Whitman the self-mythologizing poet than he was about Walt Whitman the actual man. Review | In ‘What Is the Grass,’ Mark Doty looks at Walt Whitman through an autobiographical lens 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z This inevitable sense of falling short is expressed in some of the best poetry ever written, he says, and he elaborates his point with energised discussions of Keats, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. War of words 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Ms. Prose agreed that Mr. Dylan had traveled beyond the labels that could box him in, calling him “the unlikely offspring of Arthur Rimbaud and Walt Whitman”: Bob Dylan, More Than a Songwriter 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Lafayette spent weeks barnstorming through the city, attending a ball for 6,000 at Castle Garden and even scooping up the 5-year-old Walt Whitman for a kiss outside a Brooklyn library, Whitman later recollected. The Hermione Sails Into New York Harbor, Cannons Blazing 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z He had a manic intensity that thrilled audiences, including Walt Whitman. How a museum dedicated to ‘The Mad Booths of Maryland’ deals with infamy — and fame 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z He is becoming the singer of choice for new American operas, after his triumph as Walt Whitman in the premiere of Matt Aucoin’s powerful “Crossing” in Boston last year. Review: In This One-Man Opera, It’s All in His Head 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The superbly balanced American felling ax, celebrated in Walt Whitman’s immortal “Song of the Broad-Axe,” was a favorite of the British prime minister and gentleman woodcutter William Ewart Gladstone. Design That’s Got Users in Mind 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z As Walt Whitman famously wrote, I contain multitudes. Want perfectly crispy chicken cutlets? Time to grab your air fryer 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z “I am large, I contain multitudes,” Walt Whitman wrote in “Song of Myself.” On Walt Whitman’s Big Birthday, 10 Glorious Relics 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z On Thursday, June 16, the program includes works influenced by Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg that Mr. Norgard wrote during a California residency in the 1970s. Norgard in New York Celebrates Per Norgard 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z To paraphrase Walt Whitman: If Scripture contradicts itself, so be it. What Is the Meaning of Sacred Texts? 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Evaristo’s lines are long, like Walt Whitman’s or Allen Ginsberg’s, and there are no periods at the ends of them. ‘Girl, Woman, Other,’ a Big, Busy Novel About New Ways of Living 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Looking at Mr. Davidson’s deeply humane photographs is like seeing the world through the eyes of a wandering poet, like Walt Whitman with a camera. Art in Review: Bruce Davidson: ‘Time of Change: Civil Rights Photographs, 1961-1965’ 2013-08-15T21:28:56Z The words of Walt Whitman are stuck on my office wall. Donor siblings: do the ties of blood matter? 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z To entice explorers, Ms. Smith had blocks of granite inscribed with Walt Whitman poetry placed along the waterfront path. Finally, a Tide of Celebration in the Rockaways 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z The greats will be there — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman and many others — when the American Writers Museum opens in Chicago in March 2017. Museum of Writers to Open in Chicago 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z And one of the photos in “Outside Reading” on the last page is of a gentleman bearing a remarkable resemblance to Walt Whitman reading — or writing? — what assuredly is poetry. Letters to the Editor 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z We don't live in a time of Shakespeare or Walt Whitman. Media Decoder: Remembrances of Frank Pierson, Creator of 'Cool Hand Luke' and 'Dog Day Afternoon' 2012-07-27T17:36:05Z Walt Whitman said that great poets need great audiences. From the Observer archive, 30 December 1951: Festival of Britain fosters a new spirit of inquiry 2012-12-30T00:06:05Z Ms. Wolitzer herself grew up in the aggressively suburban town of Syosset, Long Island; her mall was the Walt Whitman Mall. Why Now May (Finally) Be Meg Wolitzer’s Moment 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Hodges’s biography, threaded with quotations from Walt Whitman, gives eloquent and sensitive testimony to the contrary. ‘The Imitation Game’ Stars Benedict Cumberbatch 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Jerome Loving, who has written influential biographies of Walt Whitman and Theodore Dreiser, puts the focus of "Mark Twain: the Adventures of Samuel L. Clemens" exactly where it belongs. 'Mark Twain': the ebb and flow of the life of Huckleberry Finn's creator 2010-04-07T22:29:00Z After the interval in Vaughan Williams's Sea Symphony, there was a far grander and extended version of the same kind of transcendental vision, in sea-related settings from Walt Whitman. First night of the Proms 2013-07-13T00:25:10Z In the second section she presents pieces about writers and musicians — including Walt Whitman, Galway Kinnell and Lucille Clifton — creating a rich dialogue about the function and potential power of art. Review | Poetry that explores love and aggression, baseball and the natural world 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Stoker himself was a closeted gay man who pined for affection from both his friends, mentors, and possible lovers Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman. The queer horror of "Dracula" 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z The dancer embodies many people: to borrow from Walt Whitman, she contains multitudes. An Odissi Dancer Contains Sublime Multitudes 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z The highlight of the night was Delius's Sea Drift, his transcendental setting of Walt Whitman sung with incisive clarity by Terfel, and shaped in masterly manner by Elder. First Night of the Proms 2012-07-13T23:36:30Z Great writing, Walt Whitman wrote, is composed of words that are “whirled like chain-shot rocks.” Colum McCann’s New Novel Makes a Good-Intentioned Collage Out of Real Tragedy 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Danielpour’s work, inspired by photographs of soldiers recently killed in Iraq, affectingly set a Walt Whitman poem about a family informed of a son’s death in the Civil War. Music Review: Manhattan School of Music Chamber Sinfonia 2012-03-04T23:15:57Z It took a poet, Walt Whitman, to express that philosophy, in “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”: The Claustrophobic Paranoia of Walt Whitman’s Lost Novel 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z The Graham Center also announced a new residency program with Brooklyn College, with open rehearsals and lectures for people at the College and students from area high schools, in the campus’s Walt Whitman Theater. ArtsBeat: Graham Company Plans Move to Cunningham Studios 2012-04-16T22:49:14Z This year, we celebrate Walt Whitman’s two-hundredth birthday, and by “we” I mean all of us who take conscious pleasure in speaking American English. What to Do in N.Y.C. This Weekend: Savion Glover, “A Strange Loop,” and Freddie Gibbs & Madlib 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z Other colleagues and fellow poets offered similarly high praise for Herrera and his capacious work, which embraces influences from Walt Whitman to César Vallejo, from the Chicano Movement to the Beats. Juan Felipe Herrera becomes first Mexican American U.S. poet laureate 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z In other words, it’s not quite Walt Whitman hearing America singing its varied anthems; rather, it’s more like a Gen-Z deep-cut of a “CBS Sunday Morning” wanderlust segment: full of optimism and wide-eyed wonder. Three New Memoirs Offer a Glimpse Into the Writer’s Mind 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z He’s a walker in the city in conscious league with Walt Whitman, but also with writers up through Teju Cole, whose protagonists are wide-awake flâneurs. In Ben Lerner’s ‘10:04,’ New York Is a Character 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z Fittingly, the opening ensemble number, "All the Livelong Day" by Schwartz, acknowledges America's Everyman poet, Walt Whitman with the iconic lyric, "I hear America singing." Review: 'Working' show is both upbeat and pensive 2012-12-13T02:00:17Z Flanked by the Walt Whitman and Benjamin Franklin bridges, the section of the Delaware River waterfront accessible to tourists is largely industrial. Biking across Philly: Independence from the trodden path 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z In 1858, Walt Whitman, at the age of thirty-nine, was eking out a living as a journalist at the Brooklyn Daily Times, generating thousands of words a week at an unflagging pace. Lessons on Male Insecurity (and Indigestion) from Walt Whitman’s Men’s-Health Column 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Dead Poets Society had its share of sappiness, not least in the climax in which the students climb onto their desks and salute Williams with Walt Whitman's line "O Captain! My Captain!" Robin Williams obituary 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z A written tribute, echoing the words of Walt Whitman, reads: “ ‘O Captain! Greg Escalante, noted gallerist, Lowbrow champion and a founder of Juxtapoz magazine, dies at 62 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z In fact, he is himself principally a novelist, though one who has also published a study of Walt Whitman and a biography of legendary mountain climber Willi Unsoeld. ‘Nabokov in America’ looks at how U.S. shaped novelist 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Duffy proposed a new initiative that he called Meet the Composer, a more inviting, inclusive name inspired by his reading of Walt Whitman. John Duffy, a Composer Who Gave His Peers a Platform, Dies at 89 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z Walker’s winning piece, “Lilacs for voice and orchestra,” used the words of Walt Whitman and was first performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1996. In life’s coda, master composer George Walker has a symphony in mind 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Walt Whitman wrote of grass in 1855: “I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful greenstuff woven.” There’s a water crisis. Why do we still have lawns? 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z This poet — who, according to the program material, is Walt Whitman — views them all, meets them all. Dance Review | Paul Taylor Dance Company: A Poet of the Body, Bending All the Rules 2010-02-25T22:44:00Z Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman are said to be among his champions. How Accurate Was ‘The Good Lord Bird’? 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Walt Whitman wrote that America was a new nation in need of new poets. Barack Obama reclaimed patriotism for the left: How his 2004 DNC speech made a hopeful, inclusive America a core liberal value 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z “Whitman goes from being a journalist and publishing in the papers to suddenly blossoming into this creature that appeared in ‘Leaves of Grass,’” Gary Schmidgall, the author of “Walt Whitman: A Gay Life,” said. How Opera Inspired Walt Whitman’s ‘Leaves of Grass’ 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z But while the impact of the prairies is more subtle than mega-spectacles like the Grand Canyon or Yosemite, as Walt Whitman himself wrote, they “fill the esthetic sense fuller” and haunt the memory longer. Buffalo, the Pawnee and an Old Story on a Trip Across the Plains 2012-06-22T16:48:50Z Among the American canon, he loves Herman Melville and Henry Thoreau, has trouble with Nathaniel Hawthorne and struggles to understand Walt Whitman. From TIME?S Archive: Maurice Sendak on Children?s Books 2012-05-09T20:31:54Z “It’s like seeing the workshop of a great writer,” said Ed Folsom, the editor of The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. In a Walt Whitman Novel, Lost for 165 Years, Clues to ‘Leaves of Grass’ 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z A setting of Walt Whitman’s “Beginning My Studies,” as much declamation as song, it ends in understated ecstasy. New Juilliard Ensemble’s Focus! Festival Under Joel Sachs 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z Springsteen depicts the depths of despair in search of some faint source of hope — what Walt Whitman called the “half lights of evening.” Bruce Springsteen's "The Ghost of Tom Joad," then and now 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z Its title was inspired by Walt Whitman's poem Song of the Open Road, which presented a vision of America replete with optimism and potential. US poet Louis Simpson dies at 89 2012-09-18T14:52:54Z Pushing further back on Weisbard’s timeline, Walt Whitman is “the champion of the white male vernacular.” Touring American Pop Music by Way of the Writers Who Have Addressed It 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z Will he find Linus in the sooty hubbub of Walt Whitman’s Brooklyn or the immigrant maelstrom of Five Points? A Debut Novel. A Tiny Press. A Pulitzer Finalist. 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z A statue of Walt Whitman was unveiled in Moscow last year. A Wayward Son Checks in With Mother Russia 2010-10-24T23:06:00Z It's the combination of Walt Whitman's poetry, which is not rhythmical in a sense, and Vaughan Williams's very steady four-in-a-bar music that I thought didn't go very well together. Sakari Oramo's First Night at the Proms 2013-07-10T17:59:00Z We’ve had everything from Walt Whitman to a science book on fungus. Turning orgasm into art 2012-08-24T23:28:00Z “But for the opera, I could never have written Leaves of Grass,” Walt Whitman said late in life. Walt Whitman and the Essence of Opera 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Following a lucky escape from Opar, the weary-hearted lord of the jungle finally decides, in Walt Whitman’s phrase, to “turn and live with the animals. They are so placid and self-contained.” Review | A look back at how Tarzan swung into immortality 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z The quote from Blake might be bookended by one from Walt Whitman, who wrote that “whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.” ‘First Cow’ Review: The Milk of Human Kindness 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z There are illustrated manuscripts on display, and first editions by Milton, Hobbes, Dickens, Baudelaire and of Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass.” Clark collection tells the story of a privileged and peculiar life Mr. Taylor actually diminishes the effect of “Beloved Renegade,” however, by larding the program notes with seven quotations from Walt Whitman that encourage viewers to interpret the piece primarily as a biodrama of that poet. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company at David H. Koch Theater 2012-03-15T22:27:24Z When we say, vaguely, that the Bible influenced poets like Walt Whitman, we're probably thinking mostly of the hypnotic rhythms and the parallelism found in the Book of Psalms. Poem of the week: Psalm 23 2011-02-07T10:26:09Z This poignant 1988 piece for baritone and orchestra sets passages from a poem by Walt Whitman about his experience nursing wounded soldiers during the Civil War in makeshift hospitals on the outskirts of Washington, D.C. Review: A Baritone Ends His Residency With a Poetic Homage 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Walt Whitman wrote that “the United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem,” and in a Whitmanian temper I would argue that Frederick Wiseman is the greatest American poet. Review: ‘Monrovia, Indiana’ Is a Sharp, Lyrical Look at Small-Town America 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Stops include, for example, a home of Walt Whitman’s. Spare Times for May 29-June 4 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z What about Walt Whitman, singing the song of democratic America.? The best art is born from democracy 2010-04-07T11:48:00Z In a love letter to his country, similar to Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass,” Obama illustrates what E Pluribus Unum looks like in practice and politics. Barack Obama reclaimed patriotism for the left: How his 2004 DNC speech made a hopeful, inclusive America a core liberal value 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z Her debut collection, titled “Eye Level,” won the 2017 Walt Whitman Award and is a feast of scenery: Phnom Penh’s rain-slicked tin roofs, Corfu’s white sailboats lining up like “grains of rice.” Jenny Xie Explores the Subversive Power of the Concealed and the Overlooked 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z You don't even need to come up with a convincing excuse to call up Walt Whitman's manuscripts if you want to have a rifle through. What lies behind the battle over the New York Public Library 2012-07-07T13:00:01Z A Walt Whitman tribute on Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. will feature a reading of “Song of Myself” from the 1891 edition of his “Leaves of Grass.” Spare Times for April 26-May 2 2013-04-25T22:32:14Z The dramatizations are nicely filmed, if a little hokey, and the overall velvety tone is peppered with piquant details, like Hall communicating with the Russians in a code derived from Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass.” ‘A Compassionate Spy’ Review: Back to the U.S.S.R. 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z But Jack Engle and the other raffish young male characters, Mr. Reynolds said, are reminiscent of the man-of-the-streets persona — “Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs” — he created with “Leaves of Grass.” In a Walt Whitman Novel, Lost for 165 Years, Clues to ‘Leaves of Grass’ 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z “The idea that we contain multitudes — like Walt Whitman — was becoming a physiological realization,” Mr. Pesic said. Does Brahms’s Obsession With Rhythmic Instability Explain His Music’s Magic? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Could Walt Whitman have said it any better? Music Review: Jonatha Brooke Recalls Woody Guthrie at Allen Room - Review 2012-01-19T23:23:11Z “I would like to widen the sphere of history as Walt Whitman did that of poetry.” What is biography? Who can be trusted? asks Jill Lepore in 'Joe Gould's Teeth' 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z America’s literary past is filled with brilliant, closeted gay and very possibly gay writers: Henry James, Walt Whitman, Willa Cather, Hart Crane. Books of The Times: Christopher Bram?s ?Eminent Outlaws,? on American Gay Writers 2012-02-02T22:57:21Z There followed “War Scenes,” with text by Walt Whitman, and over the ensuing four decades dozens more songs and song cycles. Ned Rorem, Composer Known for Both His Music and His Diaries, Dies at 99 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z De Waal is in general an engaging writer with a broad range of reference: Emanuel Swedenborg, Philip Glass, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson among them. 'The White Road' is an obsessive journey into the world of porcelain 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Walt Whitman was as far from “social distancing” as you can get. Review | In ‘What Is the Grass,’ Mark Doty looks at Walt Whitman through an autobiographical lens 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z In “Vapor Trail Reflected in the Frog Pond,” from the 1968 collection “Body Rags,” he invokes the chanting style of Walt Whitman to condemn violence: Galway Kinnell, who won Pulitzer Prize for poetry, dies at 87 The show’s copy of Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” is here, open to the page bearing an inscription from Walter’s short-lived lab partner, Gale Boetticher. Exhibition Review: ‘Breaking Bad’ at the Museum of the Moving Image 2013-08-29T21:19:58Z His “real monument,” Walt Whitman wrote after the Civil War, was not his gravestone, but “the desolated, ruined South; nearly the whole generation of young men between 17 and 30 destroyed or maim’d.” John C. Calhoun: Protector of Minorities? 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z There were parades and parties, and Walt Whitman even wrote a poem, which was printed on Page 2 of The New York Times. Art Review: When Stoic Samurai Faced the Camera 2010-08-26T22:39:00Z Jarmusch has alluded to poets such as Walt Whitman and Robert Frost in his films before, but here he places the act of writing at the heart of the story. Jim Jarmusch: ‘I shy away from sex in my films. It makes me nervous’ 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Tune in tomorrow for “Song of Myself!,” a comic strip about Walt Whitman drawn in the style of Jack Kirby by R. Sikoryak. Twenty-five Years of Drawn & Quarterly: Debbie Drechsler 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z It’s an immigration story, so it goes without saying that it is also about New York and the United States — that “teeming nation of nations,” to steal a phrase from Walt Whitman. Review: ‘In Jackson Heights,’ an Ode to the Immigrant Experience 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z The album opens with “I Contain Multitudes,” a slow-motion ballad that tests the tensile strength of Walt Whitman’s declaration of self. Review | Bob Dylan holds a mirror up to America and sees himself 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Genoways, in addition to his work as a journalist, is also a poet and a biographer of Walt Whitman, but this isn’t a particularly lyrical book. Little Farm on the Prairie 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Walt Whitman was famously a poet of transcendental reach, writing himself as part of a universal sense of humanity and nature, fluid in all of its possibilities. Black Art and Poetry Elevate a Tribute to Civil Rights Leaders 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z Composed in 1903 to verses by Walt Whitman, in which a bereft seagull laments the loss of its mate, Delius's dialogue between a solo baritone and large chorus is a curious work. Hall?/Mark Elder ? review 2011-03-20T18:01:00Z “I hear America singing,” the Brooklyn poet Walt Whitman once wrote. Perspective | The nightly ovation for hospital workers may be New York’s greatest performance 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z Wagner, like his American contemporary Walt Whitman, contained multitudes. From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Seeing that their fate is now placed in the hands of some bumpkin from the U.S. doesn't give them much hope . . . until Ted gets to work, partly inspired by that Walt Whitman quote. The "Ted Lasso" way is comforting – and a counter to the hollow nationalism Americans have embraced 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z “They can feel progressively alienated from staff in the school at a time when they need nonparental adults more than ever,” says Robert Dodd, principal at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda. Teen suicides are on the rise. Here’s what parents can do to slow the trend. 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z In “Vapor Trail Reflected in the Frog Pond,” from the 1968 collection “Body Rags,” he invokes the chanting style of Walt Whitman to condemn American violence: Pulitzer Prize-Winning American Poet Dies at 87 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z The history begins at the end of the 19th century, where two generations of difference meet in an 1892 photograph of the elderly Walt Whitman taken by the middle-aged Thomas Eakins. Art Review: Sexuality in Modernism: The (Partial) History 2010-12-10T23:38:00Z Like the other great American poet of her century, Walt Whitman, she contradicts herself. Review: ‘A Quiet Passion’ Poetically Captures Emily Dickinson 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z The border photos are part of a diverse series, “Silent General,” its title borrowed — and applied very broadly — from a late essay by Walt Whitman. Troubled Turf: The Photographs of An-My Le 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z Its musical influences are varied; his libretto, an imagined story about Walt Whitman during the Civil War, seemed more in search of drama than in control of it. A Young Composer Takes On Opera’s Oldest Myth 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z He also sold insurance, carriage cushions, paving stones and groceries — his customers included Walt Whitman. Letters From a Secret Courtship in 19th-Century Brooklyn Evoke a Jane Austen Plot 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z The film takes its name from the Walt Whitman poem "The Untold Want," which says, "The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted, Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find." The parentification trap: How evangelical daughters like the Duggar girls become mothers in training 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z The two are talking about Walt Whitman when Ginsberg suddenly leans forward and asks if she’s a girl. Books of The Times: ‘Hello Goodbye Hello,’ by Craig Brown 2012-08-05T20:56:23Z Several of Neruda’s letters to her are framed, as is a picture of one of Neruda’s idols, Walt Whitman. Pablo Neruda’s love nest in Santiago: Like his poetry, it’s filled with passion 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Walt Whitman worked as a nurse in military hospitals, keeping a diary that would eventually become “Specimen Days.” American Eden, After the Fall 2013-01-10T22:01:26Z ‘CROSSING’ Based on the war diaries of Walt Whitman, this somber chamber opera by Matthew Aucoin was acclaimed at its premiere in 2015. The New Season of Classical Music: A ‘Fake News’ Opera and Sound Quilts 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Parlett’s concise and personal history of the legendary gay enclave off Long Island’s South Shore brings in everyone from Walt Whitman to Andy Warhol, but never devolves into a sepia-hued exercise in nostalgia. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z It’s axiomatic that New York has long been indifferent to its past, knocking down physical remains with cheery abandon — the “pull-down-and-build-over-again spirit,” as Walt Whitman put it over a century and a half ago. Regilding the Gilded Age in New York 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z That specter of conflict in turn brought up the Civil War, and then the black American experience, which seemed to spark the thought of Walt Whitman settings. Review: Thomas Hampson’s Conflict Resolutions 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z More than any other active filmmaker Mr. Malick belongs in the visionary company of homegrown romantics like Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Hart Crane and James Agee. | 'The Tree of Life': Heaven, Texas and the Cosmic Whodunit 2011-05-26T16:50:46Z But that’s not why, say, we still read Walt Whitman or Emily Dickinson. Books of The Times: Poems by Bao Phi, Roberto Bola?o and Simon Armitage ? Review 2011-12-19T22:52:42Z Later they recited Walt Whitman with choral echo effects. Review: ‘Settlement House,’ a Tribute to Henry Street’s 100-Year History 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z “Walt Whitman,” he wrote, “overwhelms me, possesses me, as only a few others — Dante, Shakespeare, Milton — consistently flood my entire being.” Harold Bloom, a Prolific Giant and Perhaps the Last of a Kind 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z “Don’t laugh at me, but I was reading Walt Whitman’s ‘Leaves of Grass’ and I loved that he continued to return to this work throughout his life,” she says. 2010-02-11T22:15:00Z In his 1882 book, “Specimen Days,” which he called “a batch of convulsively written reminiscences,” the poet Walt Whitman was still locked in mourning. Review: ‘Personal Correspondents: Photography and Letter Writing in Civil War Brooklyn’ 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Just sticking to the 18th- and 19th-century lit-major classics, what about Phillis Wheatley, or Emily Dickinson, or Walt Whitman, who after all wrote a lot about the color green? Tubman’s In. Jackson’s Out. What’s It Mean? 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z Walt Whitman served as a medical orderly in the Civil War. Against type: Writers with other careers 2012-11-26T15:30:05Z Related events, like a one-man show based on the poet Walt Whitman on Sunday at 2 p.m., are planned at the Coney Island History Project, 3059 West 12th Street, between Surf Avenue and the Boardwalk. Spare Times for Oct. 12-18 2012-10-11T22:15:05Z So the sleeve notes to this collection of early pieces by Gustav Holst describes his Walt Whitman Overture as "positively Wagnerian in its ebullience". Holst: Whitman Overture; Cotswolds Symphony; Indra; Japanese Suite, etc – review 2012-07-04T14:13:23Z Herman Melville and Walt Whitman provide some literary ballast for this idea, but as an exploration of — and argument for — the power of human sympathy, “The Whale” is undone by simplistic psychologizing and intellectual fuzziness. ‘The Whale’ Review: Body Issues 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z A large portrait of Walt Whitman honours a major influence. Poet's Pacific paradise: Pablo Neruda’s homes in Chile 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z The narrator finds himself thinking of Walt Whitman, and in particular the poet’s claims to be able to express through his “simple separate person” some kind of collective American experience. ‘Homeland Elegies’ Sings for a Fading Dream of National Belonging 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Marine Band marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Walt Whitman, which included a world premiere by the composer Dominick DiOrio. Review | In Washington’s crowded choral scene, too much is just enough 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z In one memorable scene, Ted Lasso quoted Walt Whitman: "Be curious, not judgmental," a mindset the show could apply to reflecting the experiences of real players instead of choosing to downplay them. The contrast between real-life soccer racism and "Ted Lasso" is impossible to ignore 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z To borrow the words of Walt Whitman, speaking of another Emerson entirely: "I was simmering, simmering, simmering; Emerson brought me to a boil." Why I'd like to be ... Julian Sands in A Room With a View 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Politics, race, acting, history, religion, arts, the environment, detective stories, whatever the new fiction is, plus poor old Auden and Walt Whitman, who have been patiently standing by for years. Bette Midler Is Still in the Thrall of 19th-Century Novelists 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z A poet who walked in the path laid down by old Walt Whitman, who tended injured Civil War soldiers in body and soul on that Mall in its capacity as field hospital. A Poet’s Tale from Obama’s First Inaugural 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z Now in his late 70s, he came here from Iran in 1960 and went on to built sculptural tributes to several of this country’s canonical secular saints — Henry David Thoreau, Frank O’Hara, Walt Whitman. A Good Year for Younger Artists, Immigrant Citizens and Outrage 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z The Crossing,” by the prodigiously talented composer Matthew Aucoin, who also wrote the libretto, tells of Walt Whitman’s volunteer work treating wounded Union soldiers during the Civil War. The Best Classical Music of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z But the metatheatrics of “Revolving Cycles,” including the cumbersome title, drawn from Walt Whitman, do the opposite: They undermine. Review: In ‘The Revolving Cycles,’ What Happened to Terrell? 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Forty years ago, in an encomium to Walt Whitman, Guy Davenport wrote, “No one phrase is ever going to label Whitman’s theme.” The “Sea-Salt” in Walt Whitman’s Poetry 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z The outdoor reading rooms were a bit neglected by the time I visited Walt Whitman in February; the chairs and tables had been removed and the structure was hemmed in by illegally parked cars. Why Libraries May Never Stop Being People Places 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Mailer is the very American immortality-seeker in Barney’s demented scenario, which features a throne room equipped with a giant toilet, women singing Walt Whitman and the noir romance of Isis and Osiris. | Sexy Beast 2014-02-07T17:56:52Z I crave what Walt Whitman called “free flight into the wordless, / Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done.” Turning In 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z An entrance sign at Walt Whitman High School’s entrance sign was defaced with the words, “Jews Not Welcome” in December, and staff at the school reported receiving antisemitic emails a day later. Incidents of hate, bias, racism lead to Montgomery school action plan 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Levick graduated in 1975 from Walt Whitman High School, after which he attended the University of Maryland, majoring in political science. Richard Levick, crisis communications specialist, dies at 65 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z Ginsberg’s incantatory dithyrambs pulled the Beats, Walt Whitman and much of 20th century poetry into view. Charles Bukowski and Wanda Coleman gave me a reason to keep writing 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z Walt Whitman would have loved it here, recognizing that L.A., like his 19th century America, contains multitudes, and is perfectly fine with contradicting itself. 'Paradise with a lobotomy' or 'just a big parking lot'? Pick your fave L.A. insult 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z A Pittsburgh native, Rales was reared in Bethesda, like Harris, and is a 1974 graduate of Walt Whitman High School, where he was captain of the football and baseball teams. Billionaire Mitchell Rales joins Josh Harris’s bid to buy the Commanders 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z He grew up in Bethesda and went to Walt Whitman High School. LOVERRO: Is billionaire Mitchell Rales the angel the Commanders need? 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z In December, Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda reported that a person wrote “Jews not welcome” across the school’s entrance sign. Northwood High closes its outdoor facilities after 4 antisemitic acts 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z He sought to model himself, Mr. Banks told the Paris Review in 1998, on the 19th-century poet Walt Whitman by being “a man of the people, but at the same time writing high art.” Russell Banks, novelist of the working class, dies at 82 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z But how much joy exists at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, where only days ago a vandal painted “Jews Not Welcome” on an entrance sign? Opinion | Peace on earth, but not just for some 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z The news of the graffiti over the weekend was not surprising to Rachel Barold, 14, a freshman at Walt Whitman. Antisemitism casts darkness amid Hanukkah lights 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z A vandal painted “Jews Not Welcome” on an entrance sign at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, just days after a schoolwide lesson on antisemitism, Principal Robert Dodd said in a letter to parents Saturday. Antisemitic graffiti discovered at Montgomery County high school 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z Sheets of paper typed with excerpts from Jorge Luis Borges, John Dos Passos or Walt Whitman and punctuated with attached pictures, decals and objects were boxed in plexiglass, like disassembled books of cheeky poetry. Review: L.A. artist Alexis Smith upended taboos. A thrilling new museum exhibition shows how 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z At a public safety meeting at Walt Whitman Middle School the following week, Fairfax County police said that the student believed to have carried out the stabbing attended West Potomac High School. Police probe how student from one Va. school got into another before stabbing 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z Earlier this week, Walt Whitman High School Principal Robert Dodd sent an email to parents notifying them that the upcoming Friday game against Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School would be moved up to 4 p.m. In Montgomery, student fights stir up anxiety over safety at games 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z On Saturday, she and three other Jewish students from Walt Whitman were together at a club activity when they received a schoolwide email about the vandalism at their school. Antisemitism casts darkness amid Hanukkah lights 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z “Sickened and horrified about another episode of antisemitic vandalism in our community, at Walt Whitman High School—on Shabbat and just before Hanukkah,” Raskin wrote. Antisemitic graffiti discovered at Montgomery County high school 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z Arvin Kim, the student member of the school board and a senior at Walt Whitman High School, said community engagement with the audit gave him “renewed optimism.” Montgomery students of color lack ‘equitable opportunities,’ audit finds 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z From Alexander Hamilton to Walt Whitman to Theodore Roosevelt, it has often been a song in praise of a liberal revolution, a liberal constitution and a diverse, liberal society. The triumph of the Ukrainian idea 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z A previous version of this article incorrectly said Walt Whitman High School's architect was John W. McLeod. Perspective | A new sign at Whitman High will celebrate its demolished dome 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z Then she heard about the incident at Walt Whitman, and the lesson took on added urgency. Antisemitism casts darkness amid Hanukkah lights 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z It might be no accident Walt Whitman wrote that in 1855, a time, alarmingly like our own, of ideological flux and partisan polarization. Opinion | In politics, sometimes it’s riskier to keep a promise than break one 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Walt Whitman also added to the transcendentalist movement, most notably with his 1855 publication of twelve poems, entitled Leaves of Grass, which celebrated the subjective experience of the individual. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Annie would channel Walt Whitman here, but I am reminded of Abraham Lincoln, who, upon leaving Springfield, Ill., in 1861, noted his passing from young to old. Review | Behind the scenes of ‘Bull Durham’ and its bittersweet take on baseball 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z The massive dome enclosed the gymnasium of the brand-new Walt Whitman High School. Perspective | A new sign at Whitman High will celebrate its demolished dome 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z Sometimes these moments have an ecstatic crescendo similar to the effect of a Walt Whitman poem. Review | Kim Stanley Robinson’s love letter to the wilderness 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z With allusions to Walt Whitman, Yuknavitch gives voice to the multitude. Review | ‘Thrust’ delivers a mind-blowing critique of America’s ideals 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z “We are small compared to the universe, but we are large compared to what it takes to have dynamic patterns and process them in time. Walt Whitman was right when he said he contains multitudes.” Q&A: Talking God, science and religion with theoretical physicist Frank Wilczek 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z It may also seem odd to not have the comforting appeal of a leaf of grass, which Walt Whitman described as “the journey-work of the stars.” Commentary: Hollywood helped build the cult of the perfect green lawn into a disaster genre 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z At the Harvard College library, the only copy was removed from the shelves “and kept under lock and key with other tabooed books,” Justin Kaplan wrote in “Walt Whitman. A Life.” Whitman’s ‘Leaves of Grass’ was banned — and cost him his federal job 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z Like rumbustious Walt Whitman, “The Heart of American Poetry” is large and contains multitudes, being part “Song of Myself” and part July Fourth celebration. Review | Poetry matters. Two new books remind us why. 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z A poignant scene in which he is reading and writing about Walt Whitman allows us to see the multitudes he contains. Hollywood has finally paid attention to Deaf culture. Three new novels go even deeper 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z New York journalist Walt Whitman was probably the most original member of the Young America circle. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Their air of mystery baffles their neighbors, as few names are more recognizable than Booth’s, whose theatrical eloquence garnered high praise from poet Walt Whitman among many others. Review | ‘Booth’ imagines the dysfunctional family that created John Wilkes Booth 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z “Our eccentric fellow citizen Walt Whitman has lost his position in the Interior Department at Washington under the general order discharging immoral persons,” the Brooklyn Eagle reported. Whitman’s ‘Leaves of Grass’ was banned — and cost him his federal job 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z Speaking of which, along with some 20,000 men and women, poet Walt Whitman signed up to become a nurse at the outbreak of that conflict. My friend recently became a nurse — what timing, right? 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z Elsewhere in the county, Zoe Cantor, a senior at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, was also feeling anxious as text messages started pouring into her phone shortly after the New Year. Students, seeing lax coronavirus protocols, walk out and call in sick to protest in-person classes 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Mira Chung, a teacher at Walt Whitman High School, said she would love to work in person, but the uncertainty has weighed on her. 115 Montgomery County schools enter covid ‘red’ zone, then report to class 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z And he never missed an opportunity to meet anyone whose name could be dropped at the next social event — Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis. Review: Oscar Wilde's life was a tragic work of art. A new biography sketches it perfectly 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Long before the current wave of book banning targeted titles including “The 1619 Project” and “Everywhere Babies,” Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” was banned from libraries across the United States. Whitman’s ‘Leaves of Grass’ was banned — and cost him his federal job 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z It would seem that the advocates of “they” in the singular are unconsciously channeling Walt Whitman, who said, “I am large, I contain multitudes.” Opinion | Gender-Neutral Pronouns: The Singular ‘They’ and Alternatives 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z Another is a Walt Whitman impersonator who looked “every bit the song of himself.” Amor Towles follows 2 brothers on an epic road trip in fine new novel ‘The Lincoln Highway’ 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z “Somebody who’s not familiar with poetry would think like Walt Whitman is in the same category as somebody like Danez Smith,” said Hindi. New to poetry? These poets will help you get started 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z And so began that chapter of what Walt Whitman called “the flashing and golden pageant of California.” It's time to celebrate California Admission Day! Wait, what's Admission Day? 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Walt Whitman, a frequent visitor to New Jersey’s coast, was awed by the way shorelines breathe. The Long, Slow Drowning of the New Jersey Shore 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z I wasn’t thinking about Walt Whitman when I hopped on the subway at 72nd and Broadway. Song of the Subway: Walt Whitman on the Downtown Express 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z Poetry says one thing about mockingbirds, as in Walt Whitman’s “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking.” Mockingbirds Are Better Musicians Than We Thought 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z It captures what Walt Whitman called Lincoln’s “deep latent sadness.” Opinion | What my 80 years have taught me 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z He read Walt Whitman, whose work was especially popular in France, and interpreted the poet as equating “the great starry firmament” with “God and eternity.” The Woman Who Made van Gogh 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z A Walt Whitman would find a more poetic way of referring to them as an item in his catalog of democracy. More lies we live by: How exactly did America come to love billionaires so much? 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z King, who grew up in Brooklyn’s Walt Whitman Houses, had few suitors before Konchalski introduced him to the Tennessee recruiter Stu Aberdeen. ‘Guru, Genius, Gentleman, Scout’ 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z “I greet you at the beginning of a great career,” Mr. Ferlinghetti wrote in a telegram he sent to Ginsberg later that night, echoing the words once written by Ralph Waldo Emerson to Walt Whitman. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, literary citadel of San Francisco, dies at 101 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z In a telegram to Ginsberg immediately after the performance, Ferlinghetti echoed Ralph Waldo Emerson’s words to Walt Whitman after reading “Leaves of Grass.” Lawrence Ferlinghetti—the San Francisco poet, publisher and bookseller—has died 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z In the high desert of New Mexico, a retired university professor ruefully remembered the “city invincible” dreamed of by Walt Whitman, poet of democracy. Pre-inaugural snapshot: Americans voice anguish and hope as Biden prepares to take office 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Walt Whitman, who published “Leaves of Grass” in 1855, was a baseball fan. Perspective | Baseball’s record book is beloved, but not sacred. Including Negro Leaguers is long overdue. 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z She grew up in Montgomery County, graduated from Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, majored in history at Dartmouth College and earned a law degree from the University of Texas. Lierman launches bid for Maryland comptroller with goal of boosting equity 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z The narrator sits in on a seminar on Walt Whitman’s “Democratic Vistas” that is being taught by his college mentor. No matter who wins the election, artists will called upon to repair a broken nation 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z In 1846, Walt Whitman envisioned Fort Greene Park to serve that democratic purpose. We need a new Walt Whitman to imagine a virtual public space | John Naughton 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z Wrote Matt: “I went to the movie over there and when I noticed my friends from our high school, Walt Whitman, and me on screen, I spontaneously yelled, in English, ‘That’s me and my friends!’ Perspective | Some movie extras added something extra to films shot in Washington 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z In June, police reported in a press release that they charged a 17-year-old male juvenile for “racially-themed vandalisms” that occurred at Walt Whitman High School on June 13 and March 1. Attorney: Montgomery County Police misrepresented school incidents as hate crimes 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z “It is the cacophonous song of America,” he writes, implicitly invoking Walt Whitman — the national story, told without the lie. Review | James Baldwin spoke eloquently to his era. Does he speak to ours? 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z In the 19th century, the most photographed man in the world wasn’t Walt Whitman or Ulysses S. Grant or even Abraham Lincoln. Black Images Matter: How Cameras Helped—and Sometimes Harmed—Black People 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z “We are very intentional about how we end our Olympics, taking a few moments for celebrating and then bringing everyone back together to one community, one family,” Mr. Dorfman of Camp Walt Whitman said. Missing the Olympics? Organize Your Own Games, at Home 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z Sports exemplify what Walt Whitman called America’s “stir.” Opinion | Our national sports withdrawal is agony 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z A decade in the making, the biography drew out the “Sage of Concord’s” various sides as a suitor, widower, father and friend while examining his influence on writers such as Walt Whitman and Virginia Woolf. Robert D. Richardson, prizewinning biographer of American thinkers, dies at 86 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z The vandalism was discovered Saturday at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, police said. Local Digest: Noose, racial slur painted at Montgomery County high school, police say 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z “Mother of Muses” ponders the motives of various well-known military figures “and the battles they fought”; “I Contain Multitudes,” which Dylan called “trance writing,” quotes one of Walt Whitman’s famous verses and name-drops Anne Frank. Bob Dylan's 'Rough and Rowdy Ways' is a savage pulp-noir masterpiece: Review 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z They repeatedly subject themselves to pain without complaint to, as Walt Whitman put it, “habituate ... to a necessary physical stoicism.” Perspective | Trump likes to conflate strength with leadership, but he exhibits neither 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z The auction also includes an autographed and signed draft of the last lines of Walt Whitman’s final poem, A Thought of Columbus. Isaac Newton proposed curing plague with toad vomit, unseen papers show 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z “Numbers,” she wrote, “represented a means of imposing sense and order on what Walt Whitman tellingly depicted as the `countless graves’ of the `infinite dead.’” American virus deaths at 100,000: What does a number mean? 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Del Rey insists fiercely on understanding and the possibility of growth – her Twitter bio quotes Walt Whitman: “Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself; I am large – I contain multitudes.” Lana Del Rey's swipes at her peers of colour undermine her feminist argument | Laura Snapes 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z The Ben Franklin, Walt Whitman, Betsy Ross and Commodore Barry bridges will begin accepting cash tolls again at 6 a.m. DRPA to reopen cash toll lanes on bridges connecting NJ. PA 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z Camp Walt Whitman, a seven-week overnight camp in New Hampshire’s remote White Mountains, sent parents a letter with three options: canceling, postponing or going forward with social distancing and other precautions. With camps shut, families face summer in the great indoors 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z The day before Matthew Simon was to begin crew practice in 2015 as a sophomore at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, he was diagnosed with leukemia. A young cancer patient found an exercise bike helped him endure chemotherapy. Now he wants others to have the same chance. 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z Last spring, two ninth-grade students at Walt Whitman High School posted an image of themselves in blackface on social media and used a racist epithet as they described the photo. Montgomery County schools overhaul policies to address hate and bias 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z A few years later, poet Walt Whitman would be more concise: Chase was, he said, a “bad egg.” Opinion | If John Roberts is seeking a role model, let’s hope it’s not Salmon Chase 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z To the three members of the Walt Whitman Initiative who attended the dedication, it was yet another welcome tribute to the father of free verse this year, the bicentennial of his birth. Should Walt Whitman’s House Be Landmarked? It’s Complicated 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z On the walls were photographs of sun-flooded landscapes, taken at Hipcamp properties, and a poster with a quote from Walt Whitman: “Resist Much. Obey Little.” How Hipcamp Became the Airbnb of the Outdoors 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z On his personal list of trailblazers, Lopez traces a line back through gay poets Walt Whitman and Edward Carpenter, who influenced Forster. What can gay men learn from their elders? To Matthew Lopez, that's 'The Inheritance' 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Walt Whitman, who never married, made it to seventy-two, and offered a lyric case for aging. Why We Can’t Tell the Truth About Aging 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z His 2009 memoir, “A Question of Freedom,” includes an epigraph from Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”: “This hour I tell things in confidence / I may not tell everybody but I will tell you.” Reginald Dwayne Betts’s Poetry After Prison 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z “On the first day of class I take them on to the Staten Island ferry, and as we approach Manhattan I have them all read out the Walt Whitman poem ‘Crossing Brooklyn Ferry’. Suketu Mehta: ‘The migration debate is driven by populists – they can tell a false story well’ 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z Like her fellow giant, Walt Whitman, her work was, above all, audacious. 'Rest, Toni Morrison. You were magnificent': leading writers on the great American author 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z The shooting on the Walt Whitman Bridge occurred around 12:45 a.m. Authorities: Police shooting on bridge leaves man wounded 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z I limbered up my take on Walt Whitman. 'Rejection didn’t hurt my pride - I had none left': confessions of a failed actor | Rhik Samadder 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z Walt Whitman said, “I ascend from the moon, I ascend from the night” to whatever is above and beyond, and we did that with less computing power than is found in a child’s toy today. Looking Back at People Watching the Apollo 11 Mission 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z A volunteer led the group in singing “America the Beautiful” and “The Star-Spangled Banner” and reading works from poets such as Langston Hughes and Walt Whitman. For some with memory loss, patriotic songs spark recollections of Fourths long ago 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Our continent-spanning country is large - and we contain multitudes, as Walt Whitman had it. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z At the New York Public Library, Walt Whitman: America’s Poet examines the people, places and experiences that most influenced Whitman. Walt Whitman: celebrating an extraordinary life in his bicentennial 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z That’s why I was second-guessing myself, standing in a basement, limbering up an interpretive-gesture adaptation of Walt Whitman’s Scented Herbage Of My Breast. 'Rejection didn’t hurt my pride - I had none left': confessions of a failed actor | Rhik Samadder 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z We might fittingly remember Horwitz as we are remembering Walt Whitman at the poet’s 200th anniversary. Review | In his last book, Tony Horwitz sets out once more to find America 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z On Friday, he read from a poem by Walt Whitman, “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” seeking to highlight the need for more funding for New York City libraries. Is This Gay, Sober, Poem-Writing City Council Leader the Mayor New Yorkers Want? 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z “The accountability piece for student attendance is gone,” said Russell Rushton, who was head of the math department at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda until his retirement last June. Can you skip 47 days of English class and still graduate from high school? 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z The Morgan Library & Museum’s Walt Whitman: Bard of Democracy considers the writer’s evolution over the course of his career. Walt Whitman: celebrating an extraordinary life in his bicentennial 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z In 1873, he suffered a stroke and moved in with his brother, George, in Camden, N.J., according to the Walt Whitman Archive. For Walt Whitman’s 200th birthday, a ‘cosmic’ poem goes on display 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z More recently, two students at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda posted an image of themselves in blackface on social media and used the n-word as they described it. Swastika found in restroom at Maryland middle school 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z But Daniel himself, as the pictures of Tupac Shakur and Walt Whitman in his room hint, doesn’t want to be a doctor at all. Review: 'The Sun Is Also A Star' believes that love is the answer 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Then there are the two ninth-grade students at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda who posted an image of themselves in blackface on social media and used the n-word as they described the photo. Opinion | I used to think America would age out of racism. What was I thinking? 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z Walt Whitman High School in Montgomery County serves a mostly white student body. Prominent scholar says a racist slur was hurled at his 6-year-old grandson at a D.C. public elementary school 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z The reaction followed a weekend incident involving two ninth-grade students at Walt Whitman High School, who posted an image of themselves in blackface on social media and used the n-word as they described the photo. Blackface image of students at top Md. high school draws rebuke from politicians 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z While questioning American exceptionalism, he drew comparisons to Walt Whitman; in his descriptions of death and absence, he was likened to Samuel Beckett. W.S. Merwin, poet of austere lyricism who twice won the Pulitzer Prize, dies at 91 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z The book is studded with the stories of Brooklyn-based A-list gays of yesteryear: Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Truman Capote. When Brooklyn was queer: telling the story of the borough's LGBTQ past 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z After all, he chose Walt Whitman for the epigraph: “I am the man, I suffered, I was there.” Giovanni’s Room shows the fearful side of dauntless James Baldwin 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z He spoke of democracy the way the poet Walt Whitman did, as both our nation’s form of government and its special reason for existing. What would Lincoln do? 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z The focus was Walt Whitman Middle School in southeast Fairfax County, where 64 percent of students are from economically disadvantaged families. Opinion | At Fairfax’s Walt Whitman, a community school is outside the community it purports to serve 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Beglarian is composing a piece for Roomful of Teeth and the Dessoff Choirs set to text from Walt Whitman’s “A Song of the Rolling Earth.” Roomful of Teeth Is Revolutionizing Choral Music 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Ever restless, Ms. Waterfall went on to write Seattle Arts Commission-funded choral works based on sacred Asian texts and poems by Walt Whitman. Linda Waterfall, beloved and talented Seattle singer-songwriter, dies at 69 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z For her abiding communion with nature, Ms. Oliver was often compared to Walt Whitman and Robert Frost. Mary Oliver, Prize-Winning Poet of the Natural World, Dies at 83 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Accompanied by pianist Michael Schachter, Tines meditated on loss in a handful of spirituals, traditional songs and Aucoin’s “A Clear Midnight,” set to a Walt Whitman text. The San Diego Symphony has joined the California orchestra vanguard 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z One day after school, parents thronged a hallway at Walt Whitman Middle School in Northern Virginia, plucking sweet potatoes, green beans, rice and whole frozen chickens from tables and bins. ‘The doors need to be opened a little wider’: Community schools give life lessons 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z Alongside is a quotation from Walt Whitman’s poem So Long: “Camerado, this is no book, who touches this touches a man”. Long-lost photo album of first world war soldier given to his family 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z The Hall of Fame has genius inventors and generals and tunesmiths, as well as Walt Whitman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Sidney Lanier. The Hall of Fame for Great Americans: As Forgotten as Some of Its Members 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Children in county schools: Two daughters who graduated from Walt Whitman High School. Six candidates vying for three school board positions in Maryland suburb 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z His operatic work “Crossing,” which drew from Walt Whitman’s diary entries during his Civil War work tending to wounded soldiers, premiered in 2015. Violinist, professor, pastor among 25 ‘genius grant’ winners 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z In the heyday of American democracy, Walt Whitman argued that his countrymen were better off without Shakespeare, whose snooty aristocrats demeaned “the common people”. Shakespeare in the age of Brexit and Trump: the play’s still the thing 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z The teen has learned about affirmative consent in her health class at Walt Whitman High. Amid Kavanaugh debate, teens push back against adults who say ‘boys will be boys’ 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z To touch on his work is, in the way of Walt Whitman, to touch the man, an experience none too gentle, but plenty invigorating. Rackstraw Downes and Malcolm Morley, Renegades from Sixties Abstraction 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z While teaching at Walt Whitman from 1972 to 1996, he served as English department chairman and was named Montgomery County’s teacher of the year. Community deaths 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Outside a chalkboard quoted Walt Whitman: “Resist much, obey little.” In Trump’s rise, Michael Moore sees the hallmarks of Hitler 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Why is a dance set to Poulenc’s “Gloria” linked in the program to a number of quotations from Walt Whitman? Paul Taylor Dies at 88; Brought Poetry and Lyricism to Modern Dance 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z In 1996, he became the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for music, for his song cycle “Lilacs,” set to stanzas from Walt Whitman’s poem “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d.” George Walker, first African American composer to win Pulitzer Prize, dies at 96 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z Writing in The American Conservative, David Masciotra recalled the poet Walt Whitman’s likening of the American obsession with commercial conquest and pecuniary gain to a “magician’s serpent that ate up all the other serpents”. Money wars: how sanctions and tariffs became Trump’s big guns 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z He likened her to poets like William Carlos Williams and Walt Whitman and Elizabeth Bishop and others. Nicole Sealey Reads Ellen Bass 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z Jenny Xie is the recipient of the 2017 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets for her debut collection of poetry, “Eye Level,” published this year by Graywolf Press. Poem: Ongoing 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Brad Vogel, an organizer of a group called the Coalition to Save Walt Whitman’s House, wants a second chance at landmarking. Seeking a Second Chance at Landmark Status, Aluminum Siding and All 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z Walt Whitman, reporting for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, toured Green-Wood and remarked on its beauty. The gentrification of death: in New York eternal rest will soon be a luxury 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z In April, over a period of little more than two weeks, three very different music theater works based on iconic Americans — Alexander Hamilton, Susan B. Anthony and Walt Whitman — opened. Before ‘Hamilton,’ 100 years of American music theater and how it’s told the story of who we are 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z “I wish I were as tolerant as Walt Whitman,” Hayes wrote in a poem from an earlier volume, “but I want to be a storm covering a Confederate parade.” The Politics and Play of Terrance Hayes 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z She’s known on campus as a devotee of Walt Whitman, who notably declared, “I loaf and invite my soul.” The Case for the Do-Nothing Summer 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z “It’s the only extant Walt Whitman residence in New York City,” Mr. Bankoff said. Seeking a Second Chance at Landmark Status, Aluminum Siding and All 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z Soon, much of Washington’s Constitution Hall was on its feet, giving a standing ovation to a leader who many said encouraged academic success at Maryland’s Walt Whitman High School without losing sight of student well-being. Longtime leader of ‘overachievers’ stepping down at Walt Whitman High 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z In “I Sing the Body Electric,” poet Walt Whitman waxed lyrically about the “action and power” of “beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh.” How the body could power pacemakers and other implantable devices 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Yet Trump embodies what you might call the Walt Whitman principle of politics: Kim bets trump will accept half a deal in talks 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z It is a work inspired by Walt Whitman’s journals, from when the poet went to comfort the wounded and dying in Civil War hospitals. Essential Arts: OCMA's new look, the Venice Architecture Biennale and the violinist shaking up Ojai 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z They hoped to cross the threshold in the middle of the block that Walt Whitman crossed when he lived there, which was when he published “Leaves of Grass.” Seeking a Second Chance at Landmark Status, Aluminum Siding and All 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z Opera will also be presenting a concert performance at the Wallis of Aucoin's highly acclaimed chamber opera, "Crossing," about Walt Whitman. A Rice-A-Roni 'Rigoletto,' Verdi's opera as a dated San Francisco treat 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z The book, as poet Walt Whitman might have said, contained multitudes. Edwin Burrows, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of New York City, dies at 74 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z “The American aesthetic landscape is littered with idiosyncratic marvels — Walt Whitman, Charles Ives, D.W. Griffith, Duke Ellington, Jackson Pollock — and Taylor belongs with them,” wrote New Yorker jazz critic Whitney Balliett. Cecil Taylor, pianist who was ‘the eternal outer curve of the avant-garde,’ dies at 89 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Like Walt Whitman, he mines his own experience and lets it speak for the many. An inspired dive into ‘American Histories’ and race 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z Walt Whitman was not the only wordsmith who started his career fishing characters one at a time from a case. When newspaper compositors were sporting heroes 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z An inspired decade was the one from 1846 to ’56, where Mac staged a smackdown between Walt Whitman and Stephen Foster. I survived 24 hours of Taylor Mac: a necessary 246-song attack on the heteronormative narrative 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z The piece is written for baritone Rod Gilfry and is based on Walt Whitman’s consoling of wounded soldiers. From Schubert to Nina Simone? The spring classical calendar is full of surprises 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z At Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, several hundred students walked out of class at 9:45 a.m. for a solemn 17-minute demonstration to honor the Florida shooting victims. Thousands of students walk out of school in nationwide gun violence protest 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z As Walt Whitman wrote, new worlds and circumstances require we put “creeds and schools in abeyance” and look for new language with which to understand each other. Perspective | LeBron James and Laura Ingraham shouldn’t be so quick to write each other off 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z He was a literary heir to Walt Whitman, depicting a rugged American individualism, romanticism and freedom as wide as the Lower 48, with his boots pulled up and his hat worn low. A tribute to John Perry Barlow 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z Visiting the Distributing Reservoir in 1849, Walt Whitman imagined what it would be like to walk its battlements a century later. How a Massive Public Works Project Saved a Parched New York 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z Xi Jinping says he has read many American authors, from Walt Whitman to Mark Twain and Ernest Hemingway, but he has not listed Donald Trump among them. News Daily: Paradise Papers and retail gloom 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z When Walt Whitman wrote the words “I am large, I contain multitudes,” he was embracing a truism: Even the dullest among us have a multiplicity of selves. The Tightening Gyre 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z Gazing up at North America's largest mausoleum, Chernow recalls that Walt Whitman dubbed Ulysses S. Grant and Abraham Lincoln the two "towering majestic figures" of the Civil War. Ron Chernow Connects Past and Present with Ulysses S. Grant Biography 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z For instance, in one section there’s a wrestling bout between the queer poet Walt Whitman and Stephen Foster, who wrote American minstrel songs including Camptown Races. Taylor Mac on queering history: 'Someone like me doesn't normally get to represent America' 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z In addition to the steel beam, planted like a flag, and the plaques with names, the memorial park includes a table inscribed with the Walt Whitman poem “On the Beach at Night.” 9/11 memorial to include names of sickened responders 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z Ginsberg’s eloquent transgressions and gift for publicity anointed him the Walt Whitman of the Atomic Age. Driving the Beat road 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z As Walt Whitman once put it, Americans are “the peaceablest and most good-natured race in the world.” Perspective | Americans have always been nice. But is it just a sham? 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z "Most living Americans can't understand why someone like Walt Whitman would have talked about Ulysses S. Grant in the same breath," Chernow says. Ron Chernow Connects Past and Present with Ulysses S. Grant Biography 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Take a cab to the Roosevelt Field mall and Walt Whitman Shops, or to the Cradle of Aviation Museum or the Long Island Children’s Museum to entertain the family. Hate the Beach? These Getaway Options Are for You 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z “My ear for the diction and rhythms of poetry was trained by - in chronological order - Dr. Seuss, Dylan Thomas, Walt Whitman, the guitar solos of Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, and T.S. Eliot,” he said. Denis Johnson, author of ‘Jesus’ Son,’ dead at 67 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Featuring mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, “Passage” uses words from Walt Whitman’s poem “Passage to India” as well as sound bites of Kennedy’s 1961 “moon shot” speech to Congress. All artsy things going on in D.C. for the JFK centennial celebration 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z The most fitting line might be this famous one, from Walt Whitman: “Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself.” Marine Le Pen, New Orleans, Arkansas: Your Monday Evening Briefing 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z The wide receiver was playing for the Philadelphia Eagles when he was stopped for speeding on the New Jersey side of the Walt Whitman bridge last November. NFL player facing gun charge approved for pretrial program 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z As the critic Eric Liu put it, racial identification is not simply a matter of embrace or efface; as Walt Whitman phrased it, we are many — we contain multitudes. Opinion | When saying you’re black and being black are two different things 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z As Walt Whitman neglected to say, “I hear America singing, and everyone’s singing is above average.” Opinion | Abolish the National Endowment for the Arts 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Green rode to Brooklyn’s Walt Whitman Houses, a city housing project, where he lives with his mother. How a ‘Second Chance’ College Produced the Team to Beat 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z But the author, Turpin believed, was Walt Whitman, one of America’s best-known and most beloved poets. University of Houston doctoral candidate finds Whitman novel 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z On Saturday, an unseasonable seventy-degree day, with early magnolias already beginning to bloom, the march resembled a constitutional convention scripted by Walt Whitman. North Carolina’s Long Moral March and Its Lessons for the Trump Resistance 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z In it, Walt Whitman leans against the railing of a ship, exalting in all he sees. When Things Go Missing 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z Six decades after the Constitution was ratified, in Philadelphia, Walt Whitman, the author of “Leaves of Grass” and “Democratic Vistas,” issued a warning similar to Franklin’s. Preserve, Protect, and Defend 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z The abolition of slavery, and an influx of immigrant labour from China, Japan, Ireland, Russia and Germany in the 19th century, turned the US into what Walt Whitman called a “teeming nation of nations”. The Divided States: Trump's inauguration and how democracy has failed 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Digitized archives - including the Walt Whitman Archive - are “democratizing” research, Herendeen said, taking materials tucked away in basements and on microfilm and making them accessible to scholars everywhere. University of Houston doctoral candidate finds Whitman novel 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z “It’s very painful. I wish we had a Walt Whitman to write about Trump. Poetry is underestimated,” Mr. Larrain said, expressing his admiration for the Nobel Prize-winning Neruda. Golden Globe foreign film nominees accused of perpetuating rape culture 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Walt Whitman celebrated himself, Shakespeare compared thee to a summer’s day, and T.S. Donald Trump has roused the poets to stinging verse 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z “The Orator,” like Walt Whitman’s “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer,” is a poem about poetry itself, its immediate purchase on the sublime, so much more powerful than classroom circumlocution. The Post-Postcolonial Poet 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z Huff was pulled over on the New Jersey side of the Walt Whitman Bridge around 11 a.m. Around the NFL: Bills will get Harvin back 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z The official familiar with the investigation says Josh Huff was stopped on the New Jersey side of the Walt Whitman Bridge while driving back from Philadelphia Tuesday morning. Official: Eagles player stopped with gun, marijuana 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Huff was stopped on the New Jersey side of the Walt Whitman Bridge, which connects Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Eagles' Josh Huff reportedly found with gun and marijuana after speeding arrest 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z He was in the 11th grade at Walt Whitman High School when his father was killed. A car bomb killed Orlando Letelier on Embassy Row 40 years ago. A mural by his son marks the tragedy and the progress it inspired. 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z We are large, Walt Whitman told us, containing multitudes. Text of Obama’s remarks at museum dedication 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z I was in 11th grade at Walt Whitman High School when this happened. ‘This was not an accident. This was a bomb.’ 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z American democracy grew a soul, as it were – given voice by one of our greatest poets, Walt Whitman, with his all-inclusive embrace in Song of Myself: How America became a 1% society 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z American democracy grew a soul, as it were — given voice by one of our greatest poets, Walt Whitman, with his all-inclusive embrace in “Song of Myself”: We, the Plutocrats vs. We, the People: How to save democracy in America 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Here’s something Walt Whitman once touched!—meant to induce gooseflesh, or thoughtful moans. Making a Home for Black History 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z For much of the show’s first season, Forte sported a shaggy beard that would put a song in Walt Whitman’s heart. Emmy nominee Will Forte talks about the F-word — only it's not the one you think it is 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Jalal said his favorite writers are Walt Whitman and Henry Howard, the Renaissance poet. For one Silver Spring barbershop, a changing of the guard 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z It’s to return to American nationalism — espoused by people like Walt Whitman — which combines an inclusive definition of who is Our Own with a fervent commitment to assimilate and Take Care of them. We take care of our own 2016-07-16T04:00:00Z The Great American Road Trip was born in 1856 with the publication of Walt Whitman’s poem “Song of the Open Road.” The Great American Road Trip 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z His thick-framed black glasses slide down to the edge of his nose as he pores over excerpts from Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself.” The Power of Pell Grants for Prisoners 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z The Walt Whitman house in Camden was closed. Road Trip Planners That Make Any Drive Fun 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z It is the land of liberty, the open and optimistic birthplace of such diverse heroes as Amelia Earhart, Walt Whitman and Muhammad Ali. Rachel Whiteread: 'It's my mission to make things more complicated' 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z A long-term fan of their work, he sees in Matthew’s “long, rolling lines” the influences of Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg and Frank O’Hara, and in Michael’s shorter, more European-inflected work echoes of Wallace Stevens. ‘The only way I could really talk about his suicide was in a poem’ 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z When seniors at Walt Whitman High School cross the stage during graduation ceremonies Wednesday, at least one student will be missing. When should high school students be banned from graduation as punishment? 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z Walt Whitman is the surprising source of a fitness regimen, the reading of which is more of a marathon than a sprint. Editorials from around New England 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z The entire text of Manly Health and Training is published online for free on Saturday in the new issue of the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. Walt Whitman revealed as author of 'Manly Health' guide 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z A trove of journalism by the great US poet Walt Whitman is being published online after lying in obscurity more than 150 years. Poet Walt Whitman health tips unearthed - BBC News 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z Literary giant Walt Whitman was an early advocate of what today sounds like the popular paleo diet, according to the author’s recently uncovered writings. Walt Whitman Was Into the Paleo Diet Before It Was a Thing 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z And if a primary function of poetry is to expand and enrich the scope of a native language, Stevens has no equal in American English except Walt Whitman. The Thrilling Mind of Wallace Stevens 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Several years ago while a media specialist in a western high school, I previewed an excellent video on Walt Whitman. Rethinking College Admissions 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z “It took about a day and a night for it to really hit me hard just what this was, in essence: a lost book, and a most unusual one, by Walt Whitman himself.” Walt Whitman revealed as author of 'Manly Health' guide 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z It is now being published by the online journal The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. Poet Walt Whitman health tips unearthed - BBC News 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z “Well – its our game; that’s the chief fact in connection with it,” Walt Whitman said of baseball. American exceptionalism: the great game and the noble way 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z Kate Morrison, 17, a senior at Walt Whitman High School in Montgomery County, Md., said she was drawn to Bowdoin after a soccer coach there encouraged her to apply early. A college-admissions edge for the wealthy: Early decision 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z As Gale, an eclectic loner with a taste for the poetry of Walt Whitman, he hurled the series toward its explosive finish as well as stealing every scene he appeared in. David Costabile: not a household name, but a ‘Billions’ star 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z She was startled to discover the line at the end of the letter: “Written by Walt Whitman, a friend.” Volunteer finds letter written for dying soldier by Walt Whitman 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z And in a postscript, the friend identified himself: “Walt Whitman.” Rare Walt Whitman letter, written for a dying soldier, found in National Archives 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z What others say “One of the great original improvisers in American history, a brother to Davy Crockett, Walt Whitman, Duke Ellington.” Muhammad Ali: rebel, showman and the lord of the ring | Observer profile 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z Charlotte Smith, 17, a senior at Walt Whitman High, put her early-decision chip on Wake Forest University, in North Carolina. A college-admissions edge for the wealthy: Early decision 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Walt Whitman wrote of Custer’s tawny flowing hair in battle, despite the fact he had shorn his famous locks days earlier in preparation for what he knew would be a bloody campaign. Red Horse: Native American drawings shed new light on Battle of Little Bighorn 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z And Offerman – reluctant tweeter, Walt Whitman fan, proponent of slow living before it was a movement – seems resigned to it. Nick Offerman says he's not a comedian but 'as long as I mention my balls every few minutes ...' 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z He sent a scan of the letter to Whitman scholar Kenneth M. Price, at the University of Nebraska, where he is co-director of the Walt Whitman Archive and an expert on Whitman’s handwriting. Rare Walt Whitman letter, written for a dying soldier, found in National Archives 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z He returned home, finished high school at Walt Whitman, enrolled in Montgomery College and studied D.C. history. The Polaroids of the Cowboy Poet 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Choice schools include Chevy Chase elementary and Somerset elementary, and Walt Whitman high school, which is ranked the best in Maryland and the 55th best in the country. Chevy Chase, Maryland: the super-rich town that has it all – except diversity 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z So wrote Walt Whitman, an early bard of Brooklyn, in the 1855 edition of “Leaves of Grass.” New York Today: Welcome to the Jungle 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z As Alan Goodwin, principal of Walt Whitman High School, noted in his recent plea to families, it is important for parents to find positive and age-appropriate ways to bond with their children. Age-inappropriate family bonding 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z From Byron to Balzac, Walt Whitman to La Fontaine, China’s bibliophile leader has repeatedly used overseas speeches to show off the depth of his literary knowledge. Publishers under pressure as China's censors reach for red pen 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z “This must stop,” he declared in an emotional e-mail he sent last week to at least 2,000 parents at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda. Parents who host teen drinking parties: Not cool, not smart, but they do it anyway 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Late last week, Alan Goodwin, principal of Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, sent an e-mail to the school’s parents, asking that they stop hosting parties for teenagers where alcohol is served. Ex-quarterback indicted in fatal wreck after teen party 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Jesus’ question is general, social, a finger on the pulse of the people, the blab of the pave, as Walt Whitman puts it. Christian Wiman: The Power of the Word of God Comes From Its Many Meanings 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z Oliver Hirschfeld’s daughter is a senior at Montgomery County’s Walt Whitman High School, one of the best-performing public schools in the country. How can a special education student fail finals yet pass? Sadly, it’s easy. 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z Hayes painted the exterior a somber sage and olive green, in homage to Walt Whitman’s Greek Revival home in Camden, New Jersey, which he bought after the success of Leaves of Grass. At Home With Artist and Landscape Designer Paula Hayes 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z But any town that has Walt Whitman as its bard can hardly be accused of forcing narrowly straight-sided views on its singers. When Gentrification Is Good 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z The book was unsigned, though there was a frontispiece portrait, the name “Walter Whitman” on the copyright page, and, inside, the jubilant line “Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos. ” How Ralph Waldo Emerson Changed American Poetry 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z “I was like, ‘Who knows all these facts about Walt Whitman?’ From Seattle With Love: A Tale of Four Friends and One Band 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z Similar guidelines are used throughout the Washington area, where many schools are named for famous figures: the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Walt Whitman and Maya Angelou. For new schools, an important question: What’s in a name? 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z Traffic approaching the Walt Whitman Bridge was backed up to the Atlantic City Expressway around 5 p.m. Truck fire damages Route 76 in Gloucester City 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z “I sing the body electric,” Walt Whitman wrote in a poem from Leaves of Grass. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Body Shaming Black Female Athletes Is Not Just About Race 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z I would like to widen the sphere of history as Walt Whitman did that of poetry. The Long-Lost Tale of the World’s Longest Book 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Oh, Walt Whitman,” he said to Ms. Ahmed, and then proceeded to share many facts about the writer. From Seattle With Love: A Tale of Four Friends and One Band 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z We’re taking a moment to remember something else that happened on the Fourth of July: On July 4, 1855, Walt Whitman published the first edition of “Leaves of Grass” in his home city of Brooklyn. New York Today: A Revolution, Relearned 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Commuters who use the Benjamin Franklin, Walt Whitman, Betsy Ross and Commodore Barry bridges at least 18 times a month would see their toll drop by from $5 to $4 under the proposal. Bridge tolls between New Jersey and Pennsylvania to drop 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z His adventures were nearly cut short in 2010, when he suffered a heart attack in New Jersey after visiting Walt Whitman's grave. Maine man to explore final resting places of poets in South 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z His adventures were nearly cut short in 2010, when he suffered a heart attack in New Jersey after visiting Walt Whitman’s grave. Maine man to explore final resting places of poets in South 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z Texts of the works, with themes of tradition, rural life, courtship and love, will include writings by Robert Frost, Walt Whitman and others. Religion events from around the Washington area 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z As our greatest poet since Walt Whitman put it: spread love, it’s the Brooklyn way. Are dogs a restaurant diner's best friend? | Spencer Ackerman and Jessica Glenza 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Inside the house is his first typewriter, a portrait of American poet Walt Whitman, whom Neruda considered his literary father, and “The Cloud,” his favorite chair for contemplating the sea. Sailing on land aboard Neruda’s ship-like homes in Chile 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z At 7:22 a.m., the moment Lincoln died, the band will play “Taps,” and a ceremony will feature a wreath laying, speeches and a reading of Walt Whitman’s “O Captain! My Captain!” Rememberence and reflection on the anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Walt Whitman briefly worked as an editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, not too far from where Hillary Clinton’s campaign headquarters will be located. 6 Poems 2016 Candidates Should Read 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Duly Noted: On this date in 1874, poet Robert Frost was born in San Francisco; 18 year later, in 1892, poet Walt Whitman died in Camden, New Jersey. Three-Minute Briefing: Ted’s Not-So-Excellent Healthcare Adventure Could Turn Away From Obamacare 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z The piece described Levine’s poetry thusly: “He wrote about a world of sweat and sinew seldom seen in American poetry since Carl Sandburg or even Walt Whitman.” An obituary brings its subject to life 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z MacLaren also directed a number of Breaking Bad episodes, including “Gliding Over All”—the one where Hank discovers the book of Walt Whitman poetry. 'Better Call Saul' Season 1, Episode 2 Review: Dios Mijo 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z Born to a prosperous Nicaraguan family, Father Cardenal left at 18 to study literature, first in Mexico and then at Columbia University in New York, where he read Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Ezra Pound. Science Fuels the Writing, and Faith, of a Nicaraguan Poet 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z As far back as the mid-19th century, Walt Whitman figured as much. How a Ferry Ride Helped Make Brooklyn the Original Suburb 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Among his last posts was a quote from Walt Whitman: “Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything.” A New Surgeon General Unafraid of Taking a Stand on a Divisive Issue 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z A family favorite describes Walt Whitman, tenderly nursing “the man form” of an injured soldier. A Passion for Writing, About War and Love, Is Celebrated Decades Later 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z A nation whose “genius,” Walt Whitman wrote, resides in its citizens’ “curiosity and welcome of novelty.” Richard Ford: Heart of the Country Her two daughters graduated from Walt Whitman High. Montgomery school board candidates focus on crowding, achievement gap In "Vapor Trail Reflected in the Frog Pond," from the 1968 collection "Body Rags," he invokes the chanting style of Walt Whitman to condemn American violence: Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Galway Kinnell dies 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z Just 20 percent of Algebra 1 students failed their final exam at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, for example, while 95 percent or more failed the final at Watkins Mill High School in Gaithersburg. Montgomery schools differ in recent Algebra 1 final exam failures He placed a Walt Whitman portrait above the blackboard. The real teachers inspired by Dead Poets Society 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z A self-proclaimed “gypsy at heart,” Devert spent the last five years of his life traveling the world and filling his blog, A New Yorker Travels, with all the ecstasy and wonder of Walt Whitman. Rest in Peace, Harry Devert, New Yorker, World Traveler and Lover of Life Walt Whitman wrote an essay called “Democratic Vistas” defining the nation’s spiritual mission, while Lincoln celebrated the last, best hope of earth. The spiritual recession 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z Earlier this year, Iowa swapped former Interior Secretary James Harlan, who fired author Walt Whitman from federal employment for writing the “morally offensive” “Leaves of Grass” for a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Editorial notebook: Whom to memorialize in Statuary Hall from Washington state? 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Patricia O’Neill, board vice president, said that when she met recently with people from Walt Whitman High School, “I bought my own coffee, and each of them bought their own coffee.” Montgomery school board committee to recommend changes to spending rules The first to stand up recites the first line from Walt Whitman's famous poem, the rest silently stand, ignoring the angry threats of the authoritarian headmaster teaching in Keating's place. The real teachers inspired by Dead Poets Society 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z Walt Whitman even commemorated the moment in a poem for the newspaper, called “The Errand-Bearers.” Watching the World’s Game, in the World’s City 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z Walt Whitman, the self-declared disciple of Emerson, embodies another aspect of the transcendental tradition: its sense that "freedom", in all its many facets, is the essence of all American ideology, including poetic ideology. The 10 American writers that English children should study for GCSE 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Because it’s incredibly important for Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman who lived in a period and a culture where his ideas were profoundly entrenched. Q&‥038;A: Marilynne Robinson on guns, gay marriage and Calvinism “Five and a half years ago, I read Walt Whitman and it changed my life,” he says. If Walt Whitman Vlogged 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z The first time I drove over the Walt Whitman Bridge, I was 14. Value Added: Pepco’s sale to Exelon began in December with a few words at an industry meeting 2014-05-04T18:30:46Z And, like Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson and countless others through history, it encourages everyone to be his or her own priest. Roger Housden/column: In the spiritual supermarket 2014-03-28T20:00:22Z Much of the speech is from Walt Whitman’s “O Me! O Life!” Apple's Latest Ad Is Pure Poetry 2014-01-13T15:16:00Z Now I remembered a line from Walt Whitman: “As I walk, solitary, unattended, around me I hear that éclat of the world.” Ready, Set, Hike! A Trial Trek to MetLife Stadium 2013-12-28T00:30:16Z The video concludes with Roggenbuck connecting the past and present: “You know that Walt Whitman would die for this, that Walt Whitman would be on a TweetDeck, kicking his legs up, and going ha-a-a-ard.” If Walt Whitman Vlogged 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z There is no sign announcing the shelter at 39 Auburn Place, which rises over the neighboring Walt Whitman Houses like an accidental fortress. Homeless Girl in the Shadows 2013-12-09T07:26:35Z Mark Twain once said, “We are called the nation of inventors, and we are,” and Walt Whitman wrote poetry about engineers and mechanics. Are XPRIZEs the Future of Scientific Discovery and Exploration? 2013-11-19T12:45:00.400Z We Two Boys Together Clinging dates from Hockney's second year at the Royal College of Art in 1961 and was inspired by a Walt Whitman poem. In pictures: David Hockney's early work 2013-10-12T00:09:40Z "Give me the streets of Manhattan," America's great laureate, Walt Whitman, once opined. Welcome to my page 2013-08-16T18:59:05Z We Contain Multitudes: Walt Whitman, Charles Darwin, and the Song of Empathy In the struggle for existence how do we herald the better angels of our nature? We Contain Multitudes: Walt Whitman, Charles Darwin, and the Song of Empathy 2013-07-20T03:45:00.470Z She steps into the light, and is met by the worn brick facade of the Walt Whitman projects across the street. Homeless Girl in the Shadows 2013-12-09T07:26:35Z Penn State head football coach Bill O’Brien gave the ultimate pre-game pep talk to students graduating from Walt Whitman High School on Friday. Penn State football coach Bill O’Brien lays out six qualities of being a good leader. 2013-06-07T23:33:55Z Consider Walt Whitman High School in Montgomery County, where we interviewed a half-dozen college-bound seniors. The paradox of the college denial letter 2013-03-31T22:31:38Z We have this wind coming off the East River, and Robert Moses got rid of Walt Whitman's neighborhood of crannied streets, and what was left was a steppe. City Room: At a Brooklyn Cold Summit, Taking Joy in the Wintry Wind 2013-01-25T00:35:32Z Dark portents of civil war were looming as the American poet Walt Whitman celebrated the transformative song of empathy. We Contain Multitudes: Walt Whitman, Charles Darwin, and the Song of Empathy 2013-07-20T03:45:00.470Z For the past year, he has used his account to send out citations from the Bible or literature; those he has quoted include Woody Allen and Walt Whitman. The Pope Tweets With You: Benedict XVI Joins the Twitterverse 2012-12-12T06:05:22Z Of the 91 precincts that handed unanimous victories to Mr. Obama, the Walt Whitman Houses in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, delivered the highest number of votes: 550 to 0. In Manhattan, Largely Blue, One Bright Spot and a Tie for Romney 2012-11-24T03:57:23Z Walt Whitman High School in central Long Island was housing about 100 people and expecting more to arrive as temperatures fall. Storm Victims Face Housing Crisis as Cold Snap Hits 2012-11-05T19:46:08.063Z A typical high school English unit asks teens to click through biographical information about American poet Walt Whitman, review a time line, then read four of his poems. Online schools face backlash as states question results 2012-10-03T11:55:46Z We’re now in the middle of a major redevelopment at Huntington Shopping Center, which is next to Simon’s Walt Whitman mall. The 30-Minute Interview : The 30-Minute Interview: Donald C. Wood 2012-10-02T23:07:37Z Since Walt Whitman, Truman Capote and Norman Mailer once called the Heights home, might it eventually lure Brook Lopez, the Nets’ 7-foot center, who was a creative writing major at Stanford? Brooklyn Offers Tempting Real Estate Choices For Nets 2012-09-04T05:01:08Z "You contain a multitude of ancestors within you," Reich said, borrowing from Walt Whitman. New DNA Analysis Shows Ancient Humans Interbred with Denisovans 2012-08-30T23:15:00.443Z An anecdote from a biography of the nineteenth century poet Walt Whitman drives this point home. Scientists as writers 2012-08-15T19:15:00.177Z Stuart Stevens, the senior Romney strategist, is fond of disparaging political opponents by quoting authors like Walt Whitman and referring to historical figures like H. R. Haldeman, Richard Nixon’s chief of staff. Latest Word on the Campaign Trail? I Take It Back 2012-07-16T03:07:41Z A Bethesda native, Zetlin is the first U.S. rhythmic gymnast to qualify for the Olympics since 2004, as well as a former student at Walt Whitman High School and die-hard Washington Capitals fan. London 2012: Julie Zetlin hopes to promote rhythmic gymnastics in the U.S. 2012-07-02T22:35:44Z Up next for the theater, Mr. George said, is a “Brooklyn Literary Mash-up”’ a series of readings of literature about Brooklyn — from Walt Whitman to Touré — set to music. ArtsBeat: Brooklyn International Theater Company Ready to Leave Nelson George's Apartment 2012-06-12T19:57:42Z Of Walt Whitman it is: "The dirty, clumsy paws of a harper whose plectrum is a muckrake." Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z George Meredith and Walt Whitman became two of his great companions. Immortal Youth A Study in the Will to Create 2012-04-03T02:00:30.247Z Two young men were shot to death in recent weeks in that neighborhood: Justin Cherry, 20, gunned down in the Walt Whitman Houses, and Jaquan Webb, 21, killed in the nearby Ingersoll Houses. City Room: For the Black and Hispanic Men on Both Ends of the Gun 2012-04-02T13:08:34Z Darrel Blaine Ford, a Whitman devotee who impersonates the poet in his later years, will appear at the Sachem Public Library in Holbrook for “An Evening With Walt Whitman” on April 18 at 7 p.m. | Long Island: Long Island Commemorates National Poetry Month 2012-03-31T04:47:20Z “Passing Stranger” — the name comes from a Walt Whitman poem — covers a meandering two miles in about 90 minutes. In East Village, Audio Tour Retraces Poets? Haunts 2012-03-31T15:06:18Z He is more like Walt Whitman in this respect than any other poet in the language. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z He was the most picturesque old man I ever saw except Walt Whitman, at that time a steady attendant of the Carl Gaertner String Quartet concerts in Philadelphia. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z But in the eighteen-nineties when "science announced nonentity and art admired decay" Walt Whitman's "barbaric yawp sounding over the roofs of the world" seemed a healthy sound. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z Of all the men who thus strike scattered Epicurean notes, without attempting the impossible task of making a harmonious and satisfactory tune out of them, our American Pagan, Walt Whitman, is the best example. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z The lieutenant on my right wanted to know whether Americans still read Walt Whitman, and I wondered whether the same familiarity with French literature would be encountered in any American mess. The A.E.F. With General Pershing and the American Forces 2012-03-09T03:00:18.240Z Another poet of the Lilac is Walt Whitman. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z Hawthorne and Poe wrote in the key of classic prose; while Walt Whitman's jigsaw jingle is the ultimate deliquescence of prose form. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Walt Whitman and Gilbert K. Chesterton seem a strange combination. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z It is the worst because, instead of presenting Epicureanism mixed with nobler elements, as Walt Whitman and Stevenson do, it gives us the pure and undiluted article as a final gospel of life. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z The transcendent illustration of this is Walt Whitman, who published “Leaves of Grass” over 26 years, tweaking and buffing and adding new poems until the end. Currents: A New, Noisier Way of Writing 2012-02-24T12:50:07Z Walt Whitman was born near the village of Huntington, and established there in 1836, and for three years edited, the weekly newspaper the Long Islander. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z Whatever value the book may have as poetry, the rhymeless poems in it have, as we have seen, considerable importance as being attempts to reproduce Walt Whitman's manner. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z |
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