Abstract
“Is it possible to note, some forty years after The Hollow Men, that the world has ended neither with a bang nor a whimper?. … But on the night of Eliot's death, President Johnson invited his fellow-countrymen not only to enter the world of the twentieth century but to accept the possibility of revolutionary changes in that world. … This shift we are charting from pessimism to optimism can also be described as a move from alienation to politics, from blues to freedom song.”
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