Below is a rare archival image of a member of the Walt Whitman Youth Environmental Brigade (center right), shown with figures representing other youth leadership groups.
Originally uploaded to Flickr.com by birdfarm.
Note the caption at left, "Long live Comrade Whitman!"
As is well known, the Whitman Youth fell out of favor during the Cultural Revolution, and unfortunately, most evidence of their existence was destroyed. And now a verse from our fallen comrade:
Who includes diversity and is Nature,
Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and solidarity of the earth, and the great charity of the earth, and the equilibrium also,
None other than our great Leader, who brings us victory and tramples the capitalist swine under his feet!
—from Kosmos
A few more items of interest concerning dear Comrade Whitman can be found in the comments on the previous post.
2 comments:
You know, darling, I've spent the past four years telling people that Harvard grads are really no different from anybody else, and you're shooting that theory straight to Hell.
Harvard grads ARE no different from anybody else.
But *I'm* no ordinary Harvard grad. ;-)
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