Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus, like a peek inside some space-age incubator, began the world première last week of Roland Petit's Paradise Lost - no direct kin, obviously, to John Milton's sturdy epic of the same name. Neon eggs are unusual enough, but more unusual was the fact that the work was hatched by London's Royal Ballet, the venerable guardian of traditional repertory. What is more, the roles of Adam and Eve were danced by the foremost duo in romantic ballet, Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn...
...alternative to the draft by lottery is an all-volunteer army of the type suggested by Milton Friedman, professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. It would, he estimates, cost the government $5 billion a year to bring military salaries to the point where enough volunteers could be attracted to obviate the need for a draft...
Articles by Milton Friedman, former economics adviser to Barry Goldwater, are not rebutted by liberal material covering the same field, Kelman said. But an article by liberal economist John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, is refuted by a conservative stand on the same issue...
Land Surrender. Although virtually all African leaders are products of mission schools, many of them are now suspicious of Christian-supervised education. Uganda Strongman Milton Obote, who was educated by Protestants, has already nationalized all missionary schools; religious instruction is included in the curricula, but the churches claim that many government-appointed teachers refuse to teach it. Tanzania last month demanded that missions give up unused landholdings...
Surprise Momentum. Not everyone gets a charge out of Stockhausen's electro-innovations. But the upper echelons of electronic composers, which include America's Vladimir Ussachevsky and Milton Babbitt, consider him the most inventive. French Composer Pierre Boulez, who is himself pretty handy with a modulator, says flatly that "Stockhausen is the greatest living composer, and the only one whom I recognize as my peer." Stockhausen tends to agree. Aggressively indifferent to criticism, he is interested only in exploring every corner of the aural landscape. He has completely done away with traditional music forms, conceives his works instead...