Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Language and Literature: Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Lucian, the Old Testament, Horace, Ovid, Livy, Virgil, the New Testament, Quintilian, Dante, Volsunga Saga, the Song of Roland, Chaucer, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Milton, Rabelais, Corneille, Racine, Molière, Erasmus., Montaigne, Montesquieu, Grotius...
...mint where radio's catch phrases are coined, a busy worker is Adman Milton Harry Biow. In association with Arde Bulova some eight years ago he put the radio on Bulova Watch time. Three years later, for Philip Morris, he took Midget Johnny Roventini out of a hotel lobby, put his treble "Call for Philip Morris" on the air. After 20 years in advertising, the same 20 years in matrimony, intense, jittery Milton Biow boasts that his two loves remain his business, his wife...
...also revealed that Albert Norris '27 will fill the newly created post of coach of University (varsity) debating. He is an instructor of Mathematics at Milton Academy, and has been debating coach there. David Horton 3G, former captain and coach of debating at the University of Washington has been appointed co-director. It was indicated that the co-directors would be in charge of the new inter-house activities. Final confirmation of their appointments awaits the decision of the House masters...
...leaving most of them intact for their grand reunion later. Success or failure of such a picture as The Sisters depends largely on how well it evokes the mood of an era which lies within memory's horizon for many people who will see it. In this respect, Milton Krims's screen play, Anatole Litvak's direction and the acting of Flynn and Miss Davis are eminently successful. A trifle pretentious in its narrative manner, The Sisters has the salient virtue of making it clear that in 1908 that sleepy year seemed just as fateful...
More conventional in his choice of genius, John Cowper Powys finds no difficulty in swallowing Nietzsche, Milton, Poe, Dickens, Proust, all at one gulp. Of all literary "appreciations" his are the most fulsome, the most ardent, the most consciously designed to engulf readers with a vicarious sense of cosmic genius. And hence Powys' book is the more likely to be read, since, like Durant's Story of Philosophy, it enables readers to enjoy the classics without reading them...