Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the Veterans' book list for the spring term: "English 31b--Milton, 'Paradise Required,' Odyssey Press...
...afternoon contests, the Freshmen set down Milton Academy 7 to 4, while the Jayvees lost to Exeter...
Working with short, amiable spectrograph expert Milton Humason, Hubble studied the light of the distant nebulae. In every case he found a "red shift."* The farther off a nebula was, the faster it appeared to be rushing away, and the enormous speeds (thousands of miles per second) were new, strange and startling to astronomers...
...argument against this contention, Zimmerman singled out seven men, from Augustus to Milton, who he believes have been the most influential in setting up the family system. "Every one of these men was equipped with as broad experience in sex as almost any one today...
Strange Bedfellows is aimed at the exact opposite of that "fit audience . . . though few" to which the poet Milton addressed his work. It will very likely hit the mark. If Playwrights Ryerson & Clements haven't invented a single thing, neither have they missed a single trick: they even remember to wedge the madam of a bordello into a frightfully genteel tea party. And though the authors are never witty, they have an uncanny sense of what will get a laugh; the secret being that it has always gotten one before...