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Mayer's script is a farrago of styles, all of them challenging, from the evil magician's bloated Miltonian opening speech to the Scholar Wu's delicate (and suitably alcoholic) Eastern lyricism in a poem called "Kite Fight," which he recites while being whipped. (The scene is stylized and relatively painless, the Scolar Wu seeming to leave his body far behind, the onlookers emitting the sound of the lash.) Our bodies are kites in a kite fight, he says--the kites a long...
...Eliot, Playwright Robert E. Sherwood, Diplomat William Phillips, Dr. (and ex-All America) Barry Wood, Principal William G. Saltonstall of Exeter. The manufacturer of Thayer's Slippery Elm Lozenges, the designer of three America's Cup-winning yachts, and a British M.P. are all old Miltonians. On Admiral Byrd's first expedition an old Miltonian planted the school's colors at the South Pole...
...Thompson '20. Granting Randall Thompson the right to performances by the Glee Club of his alma mater, one still wonders why such performances might not have been saved for some other occasion and "L'Allegro" given in a manner which did not make its music overshortened and its intense Miltonian text compressed out of meaning...
...Lake Success, the U.S.S.R.'s Alex, ander P. Morozov (a non-Miltonian) told a UNESCO committee that it was all very simple: "a small group of monopolists" kept most of the world press in chains; "communal ownership" (state monopoly) kept the Russian press free (by which a Russian means faithful to the Party dogma). There ought to be a law, he said, to make the capitalist press behave...
That had always been the Western idea: everybody had a right to speak his piece, and anybody had the right to be wrong. Unfortunately, behind the grand Miltonian facade, scalawags could and did bore from within. Last week a 20th Century philosopher tried to get at the termites without tearing down the house of freedom. As a member of the Hutchins Commission on Freedom of the Press,* William Ernest Hocking, professor emeritus at Harvard, had thoughtfully poked around the structure for three years. In Freedom of the Press (University of Chicago Press; $3), he took some bold steps beyond John...