Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Blue Devil was barely discernible among the mass of blue-clothed Duke fanatics. Only his distinctive blue tail, blue trident, and blue face distinguished him. He was hardly the devil Milton would have us believe exists...
...long shadow across Heroes of Rock 'n' Roll, of course, is Elvis Presley. He gets a whole segment to himself, which includes his first Hollywood screen test, an appearance on the Milton Berle show and the great title number from Jailhouse Rock. In Elvis!, directed by John Carpenter and written by Anthony Lawrence, he is also treated well but the shadows deepen even further. He becomes the classic figure of American success: famous, frightened and mother-fixated. The movie catches Presley's suicidal insulation, the shifts of mood and all his uncertainty, manages to make his success...
...Crimson's newly-elected captain Charles "Chas Outrageous" Duffy spearheaded the attack. Playing at number one, the five-year Milton Academy stand-out ousted Ephman Tad Chase in three straight games...
Both are referring, with unconcealed dread and awe, to the lawyer's equivalent of the Serbonian bog in Milton's Paradise Lost, "where armies whole have sunk." Most lawyers call it simply the "Big Case": the massive, sprawling suit that involves huge stakes, provides employment for legions of attorneys and drones on for years. The quintessential Big Case is U.S. vs. International Business Machines Corp., an antitrust suit by the Government charging the company with monopolizing the computer industry. Before the parties went to trial, they deluged each other with 30 million pages of documents. The actual trial...
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