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...slow decay of Milton's reputation. He's not a poet for the sound-bite century. Consider the famous passage from Paradise Lost, describing Eve in Eden, which is one of the culminating exhibits in Smith's celebration of Milton. The 20-line sentence contains 20 proper names: Enna, Prosperin, Dis, Ceres, Daphne, Orontes, Castalian, Nyseian, Triton, Cham, Ammon, Lybian Jove, Amalthea, Bacchus, Rhea, Abassin, Amara, Ethiop, Nilus, Assyrian. How many people nowadays (even among the exceptionally well-educated readers of TIME) know what all those words mean? I majored in classics at university, and there's a part...
...plant to .produce frozen orange juice. At Augusta, a ghost port barely five years ago, a third major project was completed, a multimillion-dollar oil refinery with a capacity of 2,800,000 tons annually and new docks for 45,000-ton oil tankers. At Enna, in Sicily's depressed interior, Milan Edison was putting the finishing touches on a $16 million chemical plant. All told, since 1948 nearly $500 million in new capital has been invested in Sicily. In the process, Sicily's gross income last year soared 20% to $857 million, v. only 8% increase...
...Just as George was looking for a place to start practice, a young lawyer in the little (pop. 2,200) county-seat town of Vienna (pronounced Vy-enna) decided to move on. George bought his practice and 5O-volume library for $300, hung out his shingle on a weather-beaten frame building just off Vienna's courthouse square...
...land; Termini, Imerese and Cefalú, east of Palermo on the upper coastal route to Messina and Italy. In twelve days the Seventh Army had fought for its beachheads in southwestern Sicily, fought inland past Barrafranca (see p. 34}, fought for Caltanissetta and (with the Canadians) for Enna in central Sicily. After that, the Italian Army in western Sicily simply quit fighting. Two divisions, the 206th Coastal and 4th Livorno, had shown some spirit. Others, including the 26th and the 28th Infantry Divisions, fought little or not at all. Sicilian militia and thousands of regular soldiers quit the ranks...
...bombs on Messina and Palermo crippled that system. Coningham's medium bombers, light bombers and fighter-bombers struck its inner vitals-at Enna, Leonforte and Caltagirone, at the tunnels which pierce the Sicilian hills and offer rare opportunities to block the rail lines. By week's end the R.A.F. reported that the main line along the east coast from Messina to Catania had been blocked, the north Coastal railway from Palermo to Messina cut in one place, the winding line from Palermo across Sicily to Syracuse "destroyed...