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...mistaken Cox for I. Milton Sacks, professor of Government at Brandeis and a scheduled speaker at the "Counter Teach-In." He said that his clapping and chanting during parts of Cox's and Teodoru's speeches were means of demonstrating his opposition to people he considered to be "war criminals...
...with realities people could understand. Whirlpools were given names to relate in sea-tales-lightning didn't just strike, he named the hand of its origin. Nothing can remain unknown entirely, magical creatures are composites of the world we know, and we turn men into pigs, always the unknown. Milton made it concrete and germinal and capitalized it with Heaven and Hell. Chaos is when things are skew at their origins, can never come together, cannot be parallel for sense or reason...
After graduating magna cum laude from Williams (where he majored in music) and studying with Avant-Garde Composer Milton Babbitt, Stephen, at the age of 25, decided that Broadway was ready for him. Broadway decided otherwise. Through no fault of the author, his first effort (Saturday Night) expired along with its producer. For a time, Stephen knocked out scripts for the television sitcom Topper and honed his skills as an amateur gamesman. Sondheim is one of the world's fastest cutthroat anagram players, and the walls of his Manhattan town house are covered with antique game boards. (Between shows...
Penniless and alone, old beyond his 45 years, he died of alcohol poisoning 17 months ago in a dingy London flat. Friends scraped up enough money for embalming and burial, but they could not send the body back to Uganda so long as Milton Obote, the man who had deposed King Freddie, remained President. After Obote was overthrown last January by General Amin, the new President made plans to bring the Kabaka's body home to strengthen his support among the Baganda, the country's largest tribe...
...other hand, the takeover of private corporations appeals to few Americans. "Government intervention is the problem, not the solution," says Economist Milton Friedman. "Has a nationalized Post Office worked well, or schools, or housing? The system we have is one of profits and losses, and the losses are just as important as profits." In other words, companies that cannot make it in the marketplace should drop out. A nationalized industry usually becomes a political plaything, not subject to the pressures for efficiency or the need for a profit. In addition, the ownership of defense companies is already so diffuse (stock...