Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...between meetings in his north Dallas district. (McDonald's hamburgers are more efficient than Wendy's, Armey says, because "they don't drip.") He is as likely to quote Popeye--"I yam what I yam," he told a town-hall gathering in April--as his idol, Nobel-prizewinning economist Milton Friedman. And as a devout libertarian conservative, the House majority leader steers by strong convictions--against farm subsidies, in favor of opening U.S. borders to more immigrants--even when those convictions put him at odds with some of his party's powerful interest groups...
...then there was the suddenly famous cigar humidor given to J.F.K. in 1961 by comedian Milton Berle. Marvin Shanken, publisher of the magazine Cigar Aficionado, set his sights on it because he worked as a high school volunteer during Kennedy's 1960 campaign for the presidency and, well, because he's the publisher of Cigar Aficionado. "I didn't think about what it would cost me," he says. "I only thought that I wanted it very badly." He expected to "pay a lot," he says, "but to me a lot was under $100,000." He wound up shelling...
...Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis estate is up for sale at New York's venerable Sotheby's auction house in a four-day marathon sale. Well into its second day, the sales have exceeded even the auctioneers wildest expectations: a walnut humidor, a gift to President Kennedy from the comedian Milton Berle that was expected to sell for $2,000 to $2,500 went for $574,500; $442,500 for an oak rocking chair used in the Kennedy White House; $48,875 for a Tiffany silver tape measure engraved with Mrs. Kennedy-Onassis' initials. The list goes on, each item far exceeding...
Rudenstine's critics, such as Kenan Professor of Government Mansfield, recognize the value of diversity in intellectual discourse. Rudenstine's report cites both John Milton and John Stuart Mill, who argued for diversity of opinion as a necessity in the pursuit of truth...
...conservatives on the faculty at Harvard might serve as an example of the sort of diversity that Milton and Mill had in mind. They are a mere sprinkling in the dull mass of liberals, in ridiculous disproportion to their number in the general population. True diversity comes from those who challenge the liberal orthodoxy to which Rudenstine gives voice. Harvard has no program to recruit them...