Although Whitman's grades improved somewhat during his second and third semesters at the University of Texas, the Marine Corps deemed his academic performance unacceptable and returned Whitman to active duty in February, 1963.

This last hobby earned Whitman his first encounter with police when, shortly after his enrollment at the University, he and two friends were observed poaching a deer: a passer-by noted Whitman's license plate number and reported the incident to police.

The trio were in the act of butchering the animal in the shower at Whitman's dormitory when arrested.

Three Peace Corps trainees named Tom Herman, Roland Ehlke and David Mattson were Whitman's next targets.

As Whitman crouched with his back positioned toward the north wall in the northwest corner area of the observation deck and trained his sights in the direction of Day and Crum ( both of whom were obscured from Whitman's view behind of the tower ), Martinez jumped around the corner into the northeast area and rapidly fired all six rounds from his. 38 police revolver from a distance of approximately 50 feet at Whitman-all of which missed.

Although the panel's conclusions regarding the possible influence of the tumor on Whitman's violent actions were reasonable, the Commission's implication that Dr. de Chenar had initially made a misdiagnosis was incorrect: a Glioblastoma is, in fact, a high-grade form of astrocytoma and not a pathologic entity distinct from the latter neoplasm.

Whitman's writings and those of Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Edward Carpenter were major influences on Holden's life.

Before long, Whitman's chocolates were popular throughout the northeastern United States.

These poems were all incorporated in Whitman's 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, but out of their original sequence.

Major works from those years include Ralph Waldo Emerson's Representative Men ( 1850, though most of Emerson's best-known texts were published earlier ), Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter ( 1850 ) and The House of the Seven Gables ( 1851 ), Herman Melville's Moby-Dick ( 1851 ), Henry David Thoreau's Walden ( 1854 ), and Walt Whitman's first edition of Leaves of Grass ( 1855 ).

The non-fiction book concerns itself with several students who were members of Whitman's class of 2004, 2005 or 2006.

Though Whitman's poems were little known in England at the time, Vaughan Williams was attracted to them for their ability to transcend both metaphysical and humanist perspectives.

The marriage of Whitman's parents was marred by violence: Whitman Sr. was an admitted authoritarian who provided for his family, but demanded near perfection from all of them.

Shortly after his enrollment in the University of Texas, Whitman met and courted a fellow student named Kathleen Frances Leissner ; a teaching student two years his junior to whom he had been introduced by Francis Schuck, Jr. Leissner was Whitman's first serious girlfriend, and he reportedly went to great lengths to both attract and keep her attentions.

Influenced by Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Transcendentalist movement, itself an offshoot of Romanticism, Whitman's poetry praises nature and the individual human's role in it.

In 1939, Shahn and his wife produced a set of 13 murals inspired by Walt Whitman's poem I See America Working and installed at the United States Post Office-Bronx Central Annex.

Charles Wood's skill in setting poetry to music is well-known to baritones in his setting of Walt Whitman's poem " Ethiopia Saluting the Colours " where he captures the mood of the American Civil War and the relationship between the black people forced into slavery and their deliverance by an unknown soldier bemused by the whole situation.

Whitman's confections have been produced since 1842, originally by Stephen Whitman in Philadelphia and currently by Russell Stover Candies.

Originally a " confectionery and fruiterer shoppe " set up in 1842 by 19-year-old Stephen F. Whitman on the Philadelphia waterfront, Whitman's first became popular with travelling sailors and their wives.

Whitman's introduced the perennially popular and still best-selling Whitman's Sampler in 1912, marking the first use of cellophane by the candy industry, and in 1946, helped General Electric to develop a refrigerated display case to guard the product against warmer temperatures and extend the selling season through the summer months.

In the early 1960s, Whitman's was purchased by Pet, Inc., a manufacturer of evaporated milk as part of the company's attempt to become a food products conglomerate.

Whitman's denied that the term " pickaninny " was racist and responded to Marshall by saying that it meant " cute colored kid.

* Bucke, Richard Maurice, " Walt Whitman's Canada " 1992, compiled by Chril Greenland & John Robert Colombo.

Martin Whitman's letters to shareholders of his Third Avenue Value Fund ( TAVF ) are considered valuable resources " for investors to pirate good ideas " by another famous investor Joel Greenblatt in his book on special-situation investment You Can Be a Stock Market Genius ( ISBN 0-684-84007-3, pp 247 ).

The Greek concept of an Eidolon and its worldly effects was later used as the subject of Walt Whitman's poem by the same name in 1876.

In 1939, they produced a set of 13 murals inspired by Walt Whitman's poem I See America Working and installed at the United States Post Office-Bronx Central Annex.

The movie was the first film directed by Rosenberg, who later won acclaim for films that included Cool Hand Luke ( 1967 ), and also launched Stuart Whitman's career as a leading man.

Walt Whitman's " Calamus " poems in Leaves of Grass may have been inspired by this story.

Meanwhile, Lord Whitman's youngest son Michael comes home from school and is appalled by his father's cruel actions.

The couple chose the 22nd wedding anniversary of Charles's parents as the date for their wedding and Whitman's own family drove from Florida to Texas to attend the union, in which Whitman's younger brother Patrick served as best man.

Only '' a New York hick would expect to find the literary life in Greenwich Village, at any point, later than Walt Whitman's day.

" Whitman's constant editing of his works meant that many of the other poems would change and shift throughout the editions of his life.

Ramiro Martinez, an officer who participated in stopping Whitman's rampage, later stated that civilian shooters should also be credited for their actions as the return fire Whitman encountered made it difficult for him to take careful aim at those whom he fired upon.

Houston McCoy subsequently appeared before the Travis County Grand Jury on August 5, 1966, where Whitman's demise was ruled to be justifiable homicide.

Griswold also suggested, in Latin, that Whitman was guilty of " that horrible sin not to be mentioned among Christians ", one of the earliest public accusations of Whitman's homosexuality.

He helped craft Christine Todd Whitman's plan for a 30 percent cut in New Jersey's income tax over three years, and this plan proved to be a major factor in her victory over incumbent Governor James Florio.

Harlan had found a copy of Leaves of Grass on Whitman's desk as the poet was making revisions and found it to be morally offensive.

Whitman initially stated that they " never received those letters ", however, after a hand-written note on the document was shown, believed to be from Whitman's husband, they acknowledged they may have received it, but forgot.

Her son Merrill Denison is under " know ". Although Walt Whitman had never visited Bon Echo, Flora admired Whitman's work so much that she commissioned a piece of his poetry to be chiseled into the face of the Rock in foot-tall lettering, where it can still be seen today.

Whitman's use of free verse was also beginning to make waves in the compositional world, where fluidity of structure was beginning to be more attractive than traditional, metrical settings of text.

Whitman's aviary with passenger pigeons in 1896

The poetry of Walt Whitman also had a profound effect on Holst, as it did with many of his contemporaries, and he set Whitman's words in " Dirge for Two Veterans " and The Mystic Trumpeter ( 1904 ).

Within the journal are entries covering Whitman's everyday life in the Marine Corps and his interactions with Kathy and other family members.

The move prompted Whitman's youngest brother, John, to also opt to leave Lake Worth and move to Austin with his mother.

This section of Whitman's final note had reflected: " I talked with a Doctor once for about two hours and tried to convey to him my fears that I felt come ( sic ) overwhelming violent impulses.

The Bible and the works of William Shakespeare have often been the subjects of variorum editions, although the same techniques have been applied with less frequency to many other works, such as Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass,

Whitman's long lines, derived from the metric of the King James Version of the Bible, and his democratic inclusiveness stand in stark contrast with Dickinson's concentrated phrases and short lines and stanzas, derived from Protestant hymnals.

Whitman's produced the first pre-packaged candy in 1854 — a box of sugar plums adorned with curlicues and rosebuds.

* The G4 spinoff of The Soup called Web Soup spoofs the Whitman's Sampler package with a segment called Mixed Nuts Sampler.

In a letter to the Sacramento Bee Whitman's spokeswoman Sarah Pompei said: " Meg believes the state cannot afford the costs associated with high-speed rail due to our current fiscal crisis.

Some scholars have pointed out as reasons for Whitman's choice the phallic shape of what Whitman calls, " pink-tinged roots " of Calamus, its mythological association with failed male same-sex love and with writing ( see Kalamos ), and the allegedly mind-altering effects of the root.

James stayed with Whitman's group for only two months as he felt uncomfortable playing in bars and areas full of smoke and alcohol, saying that his family had only appeared in schoolhouses and such.

The Spalding's daughter Eliza, who was staying at the Whitman's mission school, escaped injury along with 45 other women and children.

* Peter De Vries ' novel The Blood of the Lamb uses motivs from Whitman's poem, including the brown thrush with its " unendurable " song, and the association of lilacs with death.