Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When people talk about compulsory national service," says Milton J. Friedman, the bantam cock of conservative economics, "it brings to mind Hitler's Jugend. It's so much warmed-over collectivism packaged to look like draft reform...
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: HODIE (Angel). This first recording of Williams' cantata has some exuberant, even jazzy moments, but the general mood is sweetly hushed and hymnlike -a reverent setting for various poetic passages about Christmas, such as Thomas Hardy's Oxen and Milton's Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity. David Willcocks turns in his usual impeccable performance as director of the several choruses and the London Symphony Orchestra...
...economist's case is presented by Milton Friedman, professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. He argues that it would cost the government about $5 billion annually to make military salaries. Friedman claims that we are "taxing" young men in the army by paying them less than what they could earn on the open market. If these "taxes," he continues, are added to the present military budget, it will actually be cheaper to pay for a volunteer army. The obvious and over-riding advantage of such an army is that the amount of coersion in society is reduced...
...ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF ITALY by Milton Gendel. 276 pages. McGraw-Hill. $25. A fascinating pictorial chronicle from the Iron Age to La Dolce Vita, with half a dozen historical essays by Italian and British professors...
...failure to secure a formal resolution in support of the plan must be counted as a trifling defeat for the partisans of a volunteer army led by Milton Friedman, professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, and Rep. Donald Rumsfeld (R-III.). In four days of lobbying within the conference hall and without, the group convinced many delegates that at the very least, military salaries should be raised to see if the enlistment rate would rise...