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...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 of me that savors Milton's weaving of so much ancient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milton and Shakespeare: Battle of the Bards | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

Count Prorok will leave Paris on December 10, 1933. His expedition will cover Lybian and the territory surrounding the Nile. Students who are interested may get in touch with James E. Boyack, 122 East 42nd Street, New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AFRICAN EXPLORATION | 11/23/1933 | See Source »

...revel in honors of rank at last due him. Three Quadrumvirs. Three members of the famed Quadrumvirate who strode with II Duce on the March to Rome in 1922, when he seized power, were given Cabinet posts last week. General Emilio De Bono, veteran of the Lybian and World Wars received the important Ministry of Colonies. General Italo Balbo, the leading Italian authority on military aviation, a clever flyer, a keen observer who visited the U. S. last year, was made Minister of Aviation. Michele Bianchi, one of Signor Mussolini's oldest friends and colleague of the days when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Authority, Order, Justice! | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

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