Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...liberal-leaning Democrat who says "I prefer Paul Samuelson to Milton Friedman politically," Kreps considers herself a moderate in economics. She would prefer, for example, that "the forces of competition resolve unemployment to the greatest extent possible, rather than have government do it." Kreps believes that businesses in the future may have to give more time off to employees in midcareer, adjust to the needs of working women, and cope with the problems of early retirement...
...special election will be held within six months, and in the meantime, an acting mayor will be selected by the city council. Daley's successor will not have comparable clout since he will undoubtedly be denied the top party job that Daley held. Says Political Scientist Milton Rakove of the University of Illinois' Circle Campus: "The politburo takes over now. They won't let anyone have that kind of power again." For better or worse, Richard Daley was probably the last of his kind...
...Milton Friedman. His economic theories have proved to be painfully true, in England and also in New York City...
...Milton, English Bard, the Scourge of Kings...
...found the following lines scribbled on the reverse sides of the pages of a paper handed in late in my course, Humanities 118, "Myths of Creation." I can only surmise that some student, working in a Milton archive and pressed for time, seized upon the nearest available paper, unaware of the momentous discovery within his grasp. For obviously what the student had unwittingly stumbled upon was a fair copy of a previously unknown fragment of Paradise Lost. I of course did not jump to this conclusion, but subjected the fragment to all possible tests, including metrical analysis and carbon...