Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Commerce Department's Economic Development Administration and the son of a millionaire, moved into exclusive Grosse Pointe, Mich. (median income: $11,200), whites drove past his house screaming, "Nigger, get out!" When Massachusetts' Attorney General and G.O.P. Senatorial Candidate Edward Brooke tried recently to move to Milton, a wealthy suburb of Boston, he was peremptorily turned away; now he lives in Newton, an equally swank suburb...
Less helpful are such aids as the Milton Bradley Co.'s Modern Mathematics Kindergarten Kit, a motley of geometric shapes, animal cutouts and numbers in felt ($3). Kenworthy Educational Service, Inc. has put out Programmed Reading Aids, a series with ten flip cards of words ($2.50), perception cards showing figures, domino patterns and numbers ($1), and such 65? workbooks as I Learn to Read and Primary Count and Color. More informative for parents is a record-booklet package, Teaching Jonny's Sister to Read ($4.95), in which Cambridge Housewife Henny Wenkart instructs her 4½-year-old daughter...
...Milton on Divorce
...Father Lepp's comments on second marriages for Catholics [July 22] follow very closely John Milton's views in his tract Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, published in 1643. Milton discusses the need for divorce so that man can be more content either with himself or with another: "And this doubtless is the reason of those lapses and that melancholy despair which we see in many wedded persons, though they understand it not, or pretend other causes because they know no remedy; and is of extreme danger. Therefore when human frailty surcharged is at such a loss, charity...
...perceptive commencement address delivered at N.Y.U. last month, Assistant Dean Milton R. Stern noted: "The young seem always to be in the public prints and on TV, but that doesn't mean that they control things. To the extent that young people wearing their hair longer or skirts shorter dominate the mass media, they are frequently being exploited for commercial reasons. Youth is used to sell-perfumes, cars, cigarettes, and everything else. Youth, indeed, learns to sell itself. What happens to the young people these days is the opposite of commercialized vice-it might be called commercialized innocence...