Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hands of carpenters"). After his fashion, he gave the U.S. some rare admiration-"a great promiscuous grave into which tumble, and then disintegrate, all that was formerly race, class or nationhood." In 1951, long failing of sight, he became blind, but he kept up his furious writing: "Milton had his daughters, I have my Dictaphone." Poet T. S. Eliot called him "the most fascinating personality of our time," combining "the thought of the modern and the energy of the cave...
...committee of Law School alumni has begun a drive for $1,250,000 for the construction of two buildings for the School's International Legal Studies program, according to Milton Katz '27, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, the director of the program...
Odyssey (Sun. 4 p.m., CBS). "The Wonderful World of Comics," discussed by Al (Li'l Abner) Capp, Walt (Pogo) Kelly, Milton (Steve Canyon) Caniff...
Thus the gin-bashing cronies of Milton Hall, hero of this brilliant first novel, might have summarized his brief and dreadful career as a British colonial officer in Malaya. The story is set in the fictional district of Telebu. State of Mandore. a few hours by car from Singapore. To the usual tropical discomforts is added the barbed wire which confines the town within its perpetual state of siege; to the usual jungle noises is added the rumble of British 25-pounders as dispirited troops try to nose out Communist terrorists in the hills of the "vast sighing terrible peninsula...
...Milton E. Pharr was found by Nessfeness in a segregated high school in Gastonia, N.C., where his father is a janitor, his mother a cleaning woman. After a poor start at DePauw University (one B, two Ds, an F), Milton raised his marks to four As, a B, a C, made the varsity baseball team and became president of the literary magazine...