Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Milton Friedman, an American economist at the University of Chicago, won the economics prize in 1976, and last year's award went to Bertil Ohlin of Sweden and Englishman James Meade...
Winthrop, who holds degrees from both Andover and Milton Academies, is no radical. He describes himself politically as a Democrat, and is against the constitution's controversial minority clause...
Janus has spent ten years and $20,000 of his own money traveling around the country to interview top comedians and give them psychological tests. So far, he has tested 76 Jewish humorists, including Milton Berle, George Burns, David Brenner, Sid Caesar, David Steinberg and Mort Sahl. Most, he says, were ambivalent about their Jewishness and compulsively turned to humor to ward off their private demons. As Joan Rivers told Janus, "If I were marching to the ovens, I'd be telling jokes all the way." What makes them funny, says Janus, "is their pain...
...Milton Katz, Stimson Professor of Law, said the nationally televised appearance of the three leaders raised the question in his mind of "whether the leaders contemplated an autonomous Palestinian state not connected with Jordan" because of Carter's inclusion of Jordan in his comments...
...another year, is a solid, serious musician. He programs lots of the classics, Mozart and Haydn, but also likes such modernists as Berg and Bartok. "None of the young conductors has a wide repertory, but De Waart is anxious to learn and that separates him from the rest," says Milton Salkind, president of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. De Waart is not worried: "Herbert von Karajan once said it takes ten years to be a conductor and another ten before one is a good conductor. O.K., I've conducted almost twelve now. That makes me a conductor...