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...Government ultimately prevails, it could compromise the basic principle of a free press. As far back as 1644, John Milton fought against prior restraint in Areopagitica, his famous protest to Parliament "for the Liberty of Unlicenced Printing." Hard-won democratic tradition insists that a free press is vital to an informed electorate: Anglo-American law has generally rejected any Government right to license a newspaper or censor its publication for any reason. William Blackstone, the great 18th century English jurist, stated the basic proposition: "The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state...
...Milton Friedman, Sc.D., anti-Keynesian star of the University of Chicago's department of economics...
Writers in every era have remade Jesus in the image that suited their personal or literary needs. In Milton's Paradise Regained, Christ is an intellectual who disdains "the people" as "a herd confus'd, a miscellaneous rabble who extol things vulgar." The 19th century skeptic Swinburne had a character say of Jesus, "O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath." D.H. Lawrence equated the Resurrection with Jesus' awakening sexual desire. In the 1960s, S.G.F. Brandon saw the Nazarene as a sympathizer of the 1st century's Zealot guerrillas...
Seott M. Bowie of Glaverly Hall and Omaha, Nebraska; Douglas M. Brenner of Lowell House and Portsmouth, Virginia; Stephen B. Calderwood of Peabody Terrace and Andover; David P. Cheruin of Quiney, House and Union, New Jersey; John M. Conley of Kirkland House and Milton...
This analysis differs sharply from the reading of Administration economists and the monetarist school led by Milton Friedman, who see a vigorous expansion developing. Friedman recently went so far as to say that the problem is "to keep the economy from going too fast" and setting off another inflationary spiral. Yet most economists and businessmen tend to agree with TIME'S board...