Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reform. The reform movement today, in fact, generally favors a moratorium on the building of new prisons. Its reasoning is simple. The only sure thing about an added facility is that it will be filled -and given society's policies, will soon enough become just another hellhole. President Milton Rector of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency even contends that if space is "readily available," the rates of incarceration tend to go up even though serious crime may be declining...
Zito, who said "Terrence, This is Stupid Stuff" exemplified "escapism versus whatever its opposite is," indicated his two favorite lines from the poem were: "Malt does more than Milton can, To justify God's waste...
...right, distributed by the Associated Press to its 1,370 member newspapers. But as the technology of publishing books has advanced, so has the arcane art of counting book sales. With this week's chart-led by Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Identity (fiction) and Milton and Rose Friedman's Free to Choose (nonfiction) -TIME'S bestseller list enters the computer age. The new literary hit parade, product of an extensive study by Books Editor Stefan Kanfer, is based on the most representative sample of U.S. bookstores ever constructed and on retail sales figures for each...
...Free to Choose, Milton & Rose Friedman...
...dynamic teacher. In the years before his illness Grandine taught both Shakespeare and epic poetry with a quiet intensity, able with acumen and dry with to expose the heart of the most difficult works. His lectures were models of directed intelligence; as he led students through Virgil, Spenser, Milton and Blake, he avoided the twin perils of near-sighted textual analysis and bland generality, and presented the poets as men whose ideas could instruct us or help us make sense of our own lives...