Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dealing with new playwrights is in any case, a messy, time-consuming, demoralizing business. Ninety per cent of them have no reason for writing a play beyond being stage-struck; and most manuscripts are either plodding, sentimental TV problem plays, or blank-verse behemoths that would make Milton blanch. The latter are occasionally built on legitimate dramatic impulses, but the authors have no theatre sense, no conception of how to hold the stage, and they smother their ideas with embarrassing language and elephantine pretensions. Many of these playwrights have nobly sacrificed law school, television or movies for Art: they trumpet...
...committee is likely to consider many of the same issues that came up last year, including trade with the Soviet Union, nuclear power, and divestment of stock in companies that do business in South Africa, Milton Katz, Stimson Professor of Law Emeritus, who chaired the committee last year, said after the meeting. "There is not specific reason to anticipate anything new now," he added...
...book--and the whole series--"makes no excuse for the fact that its subject is film," says Cavell. Bringing together sources ranging from Shakespeare and Milton to Freud and Wittgenstein, Cavell examines the movies for such themes as rebirth, liberty, and interdependence...
...President." When he found out that he had been named the winner of this year's Nobel Prize, Tobin said that he was "surprised, excited and pleased." But his wife Betty took the news in stride. "I've been expecting this for years," said she, "ever since Milton Friedman won the prize...
...others: Paul Samuelson, Simon Kuznets, Kenneth Arrow, Wassily Leontief, Tjalling Koopmans, Milton Friedman, Herbert Simon, Theodore Schultz, Lawrence Klein...