Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Does TV cause riots? Are children growing insensitive to brutality because of crime programs? So went the questions put last week by the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, headed by Milton S. Eisenhower. The commission, in effect, wondered whether TV is the mirror or the molder of society. After three days of hearings, it wound up with a full range of conflicting answers...
...Salinas, Calif. The region figures in his novels and stories, including East of Eden, Cannery Row and Of Mice and Men. The son of a miller and a Salinas Valley schoolteacher, he played basketball as a youth and read such works as Malory's Morte d'Arthur, Milton's Paradise Lost and the Bible-tastes that accounted perhaps for his allegorical tendencies. He entered Stanford in 1920, but left after five years of intermittent attendance and no degree. In New York, he worked briefly for the American and was fired because he seemed incapable of recording facts...
LANGSTON HUGHES by Milton Meltzer (Crowell, $4.50) is a good, straightforward biography of the late Negro poet, who saw, felt, understood and wrote about what it was like to be black in America...
...happens, so are many economists and Government officials, together with surprising numbers of business and political leaders. Milton Friedman, Barry Goldwater's conservative economist in 1964, has long called for what he terms the negative income tax. Yale's James Tobin, a leading liberal economist, has been an effective proponent of what is sometimes called the guaranteed annual income. Though the plans vary considerably in detail, the principle is the same: everyone is entitled to a basic income as a matter of right. Under Tobin's plan, the most carefully thought out, no family of four would...
...month, and by the end of next month, 1,000,000 people-one of every eight New Yorkers-will be on welfare. Other cities have shown similar increases. There is only one consolation. The huge expenditures are at long last forcing a re-examination of the system that Economist Milton Friedman aptly dubs "illfare...