Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campaign, Epton seemed beaten down by the pressure. "He conked out at the end," said Political Analyst Milton Rakove of the University of Illinois. Epton testily withdrew from one national television interview on Sunday, claiming that one of the panelists was biased against him, and insisted on being in a separate studio from Washington during another broadcast. "He thinks he's in South Africa," chided Washington. On election night Epton raged to a television interviewer that some Chicago reporters were "slime, beneath contempt." He was particularly bitter that blacks, who always backed him for the state legislature, had turned...
...could have created those ripe interfolding fields, that mildly blowing air, that dewy sparkle on the face of a static world? Constable did to the perception of landscape in paint what William Wordsworth did to it in verse: he threw out the allegorical fauna that had infested it since Milton and the rococo-nymphs, satyrs, dryads, Vergilian shepherds and Ovidian spring deities-and substituted Natural Vision for the Pathetic Fallacy...
...emerges. Rockwell's discussion of serialism--a non-traditional musical system championed by Arnoid Schoenberg--is prefaced by the revealing remark. "But it was serialism more than populism that impeded the evolution of truly American music." Rockwell can't decide which side he is on, the side of serialist Milton Babbitt of Princeton--who once wrote an essay entitled. "Who; Cares if You Listen?"--or the avowedly populist Elliott Carter--whom he accuses of having a "more calculated attitude towards world success" than Babbitt. His classical composers are placed in a musical Catch--22; either they are anti-public...
Most of director Milton Katselas' staging is successful. The final act's breakfast scene, with the varyingly confused, offended or bemused Chases and Prynnes, proceeds as smoothly as it does quickly. Katselas also deftly balances the opening exchanges between the four; their exits and entrances are well-timed, although slowed by the audience's initial reactions to Burton (who looks graceful and distinguished in a tuxedo, though his shoe-heels are about three inches too high for the 1930s of Private Lives) and Taylor, who enters confidently in a low-cut nightgown and robe. But, in keeping with the tone...
...first TV revolution brought American viewers Milton Berle. The second has given households dozens of alternatives, piped in via cable to some 31 million U.S. homes. But to learn what is on their systems, cable subscribers often must wade through several lists that are incomplete or that include services not available in their areas. Last week an ambitious new magazine, TV-CABLE WEEK, started offering cable listings that are fine-tuned by computer to match, channel by channel, exactly what the subscriber's system offers-cable, pay services and regular TV. Said the magazine's managing editor, Richard...