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Walt MINNICK, Congress, ID (1942)

MINNICK Walt , a Representative from Idaho; born in Walla Walla, Walla Walla County, Wash., September 20, 1942; B.A., Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wash., 1964; M.B.A., Harvard University,…

Walla Walla

(Encyclopedia) Walla WallaWalla Wallawŏlˈə wŏlˈə [key], city (2006 est. pop. 30,945), seat of Walla Walla co., SE Wash., at the junction of the Walla Walla River and Mill Creek, near the Oreg. line;…

Kuhn, Walt

(Encyclopedia) Kuhn, Walt, 1880–1949, American painter, b. New York City. At the age of 19 he worked as a cartoonist in San Francisco, contributing later to Life magazine. After travel and study in…

Vendler, Helen Hennessy

(Encyclopedia) Vendler, Helen Hennessy, 1933–, American poetry critic, b. Boston, Ph.D. Harvard, 1960. One of America's most lucid critics of poetry, uniquely adept at close reading, she is also…

Walt Whitman: Still Though the One I Sing

Still Though the One I SingStill though the one I sing, (One, yet of contradictions made,) I dedicate to Nationality, I leave in him revolt, (O latent right of insurrection! O quenchless…

Walt Whitman: Starting from Paumanok, Part 1

Part 1Starting from fish-shape Paumanok where I was born, Well-begotten, and rais'd by a perfect mother, After roaming many lands, lover of populous pavements, Dweller in Mannahatta my city,…

Walt Whitman: Starting from Paumanok, Part 2

Part 2Victory, union, faith, identity, time, The indissoluble compacts, riches, mystery, Eternal progress, the kosmos, and the modern reports. This then is life, Here is what has come to the…

Walt Whitman: Starting from Paumanok, Part 3

Part 3Americanos! conquerors! marches humanitarian! Foremost! century marches! Libertad! masses! For you a programme of chants.Chants of the prairies, Chants of the long-running Mississippi,…

Walt Whitman: Starting from Paumanok, Part 4

Part 4Take my leaves America, take them South and take them North, Make welcome for them everywhere, for they are your own off-spring, Surround them East and West, for they would surround you…