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Four centuries are represented in The Random House Book of Poetry for Children, selected by Jack Prelutsky ($13.95). William Blake is here; so are Shakespeare and Charles Lamb, alongside such modern versifiers as Spike Milligan, Eve Merriam and Karla Kuskin. A zoo of creatures passes in review, from pachyderms ("I think they had no pattern/ When they cut out the elephant's skin;/ Some places it needs letting out,/ And others, taking in") to birds ("The song of canaries/ Never var ies,/ And when they're moulting/ They're pretty revolting"). Anthologist Prelutsky gives equal time...
Melissa A. Milligan '84 said that King's campaign is "getting Black people interested again," She added. "A lot of his strength is in newly registered voters. They've registered because they've finally found a candidate who isn't just blowing...
MARRIED: Margaret Milligan, Dec. 21, 1962 (Univ. of Colorado, '62). CHILDREN: Reid...
After a drawn-out legal battle sensationalized by the local and national press, Milligan won--for a while. He was found not guilty and committed to a top-drawer mental health institution, just as his attorneys had requested. But ambitious politicians--the same sort who needlessly shuttle off marginal offenders to America's jails today--were out to reverse that decision. A higher court recently recommended that Milligan be sent to maximum security prison where he and his tattered family would be responsible for providing for his desperately needed psychiatric care. And shortly after the "not guilty" verdict, the Ohio...
...painting his terrifying portrait of the fight waged on behalf of Milligan by lawyers and mental health experts to get him special treatment and a "not guilty" verdict, Keyes, unfortunately, downplays larger issues. Chief among these are the extent to which psychiatric problems should be allowed to change verdicts and the timeless dilemma of how to prevent judges and politicians from ignoring individual rights for their own aggrandizement or ambition. This is his principal flaw in an otherwise excellently researched and explained study. Keyes focuses heavily on Milligan's psychological composition and how it developed into a condition that spurred...