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...Lost. However, the regularity of the iambic pentameter suggests that these lines were written early in Milton's career, and hence represent rather a preliminary study for the Great Epic. In any event, this fragment clearly is a major addition to the Milton corpus, illuminating as it does with hitherto unparalleled clarity the personal dimension to Paradise Lost, showing how deeply rooted the poem is in Milton's own experience. The fragment also seems to confirm Harold Bloom's controversial claim in A Map of Misreading that Milton's "allusiveness introjects the past, and projects the future...
...waited on deck," reports Carruthers, the narrator, a clever, foppish young Foreign Office sprig who has just joined Davies, a sea-struck Oxford classmate, on his cruising boat, "and watched the death-throes of the suffocating sands under the relentless onset of the sea ... The Dulcibella, hitherto contemptuously inert, began to wake and tremble under the buffetings she received ... Soon her warp tightened and her nose swung slowly round; only her stern bumped now, and that with decreasing force. Suddenly she was free and drifting broadside to the wind till the anchor checked her and she brought up to leeward...
...evidence found in Posada's home and office, Bosch told police that CORU had ordered two of its U.S.-based agents to carry out the Letelier "hit." The Venezuelans also found that Bosch and other CORU agents were behind many, if not most, of this year's hitherto mysterious anti-Castro bombings around the Caribbean...
This brand of positive thinking, plus a catchy title and heavy promotion, is making Dyer wealthy. Your Erroneous Zones has sold 150,000 copies in six months and is now No. 2 on TIME'S bestseller list. A balding, hitherto little-known professor at St. John's University in New York, Dyer, 36, says he practices what he preaches about emotional control. When he underwent oral surgery without an anesthetic, he felt no pain. He chose to feel pleasure by fantasizing erotic images and recalling positive things in his life...
...charges of incompetence and other costly mistakes, most of which University officials either denied or declined comment on earlier this month, have been made by one of the two relatively unknown employees, Michael W. Brown-Beasley, in his hitherto unsuccessful attempt to overturn his August 4 dismissal for insubordination as assistant to the director of the Office of Fiscal Services...