Word: miltonic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most brilliant student I have never known, and the most fragile, the most creative and probably the least grounded," said Walter S. McCloskey '60, one of Hansen's teachers at Milton Academy...
...system fall into this trap? Primarily, says Nobel-prizewinning economist Milton Friedman, because it was "designed for a world that no longer exists." In 1935--or even in January 1940, when the first checks were mailed--the U.S. was a much smaller, poorer country, still ravaged by the Great Depression that struck with special savagery at the old. Those people lucky enough to have jobs were overwhelmingly male. Even more important, the world had yet to hear of organ transplants and the manifold other wonders of modern medicine. Once they were available, along with the better nutrition and sanitation that...
...says that teaching writing in a university promotes the mistaken idea that education requires a turning inward into one's self, rather than outward towards the world." Creative writing classes, he claims, take away valuable classroom time reading the writing of great minds such as Milton and Joyce. I agree that turning outward towards the world, learning the ideas bestowed unto us by the Great Minds, is of utmost important. But turning outward does not mean the repression of turning inward to oneself...
Rascoff claims that "one can write--creatively even--without going to writing classes." But the same argument can be made for most classes. It is possible to study--Milton even--without going to a class on the subject. Extensive literature (often by the professor teaching the course) about the subject matter of most courses is readily available...
Smith's artistic talents were evident when he was a youngster in Aberdeen, South Dakota, where he liked to draw when he wasn't playing basketball. After graduating from the University of Minnesota, he set out for New York City. Studies with graphic-art doyen Milton Glaser at the School of Visual Arts culminated in a "dream job" in TIME's art department. His four-day work schedule gives him time for his own painting-mixed media on panels-which has resulted in several one-man shows...