Word: miltonic
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Porter was born to wealthy parents in 1907 and spent his childhood in the suburbs of Chicago before attending the Milton Academy. He gradated from Harvard in 1928 with a degree in fine arts and immediately tuned to the intellectual community of New York City for inspiration, which at first he found studying under Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League But a after a few years of searching for a novel direction, moving through New York's most sophisticated artistic circles in the process. Porter developed a nostalgic admiration for the straight forward beauties of Impressionism...
This year's Mellen Fellowship Award winners specialize in fields ranging from Black Kentucklans. John Milton's poetry and Qusker families. Geroge C. Wright (Afro Americans Studies). peter Rudnyisky (English), Barry Levy (History) and 11 other young teachers will hold appointments with Harvard departments next year. The fellows will research their course or a Freshman Seminar...
...marriage of Podkolyossin (Kevin Walker), a civil servant, and Agafya (Pamela Thomas), a merchant's daughter, seems inevitable early in the play. Podkolyossin has been toying with the idea of marriage--and trying the patience of matchmaker Madame Fyolka (Chris Hayes)--for three months when his friend Katcharev (Josh Milton) steps in to settle things once and for all. Kevin Walker is convincing enough as the indecisive and bumbling civil servant to make us pity his future wife--at least, until we see her other suitors, an unambiguously...
...further appeal to children, Weiner flattened the character's personalities, exaggerating their identifying characteristics to make them simpler and more comical. As Katcharey, Josh Milton takes on the task of marrying off his friend with all the fervent energy of a missionary; Andrew Gould's Omelet, another of Agafya's suitors, who does the best job of making the audience dislike him, shouts, screams, and schemes from the moment of his first appearance. White masks painted on the faces of the actors heighten their stylization, making them cartoon versions of themselves. These masks emphasize the actors' exaggerated facial expressions, making...
Born in Ontario and educated at the University of Toronto and at Harvard. Bush taught here for 33 years, retiring in 1966 His interest spanned the range of literature, although he specialized in English poetry, particularly Milton and Chaucer...