Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Evil is charismatic. A famous question: Why is Milton's Satan in Paradise Lost so much more attractive, so much more interesting, than God himself? The human mind romances the idea of evil. It likes the doomed defiance. Satan and evil have many faces, a flashy variety. Good has only one face. Evil can also be attractive because it has to do with conquest and domination and power. Evil has a perverse fascination that good somehow does not. Evil is entertaining. Good, a sweeter medium, has a way of boring people...
...Jones, a native of Milton, Mass. and a Kirkland House resident, track has taken her from College Park, Md. to Europe, brought her victories and disappointments, visits to medical tents and swimming pools...
...what is the lesson? Should we learn from this story that, as Milton said, "The mind is its own place, and in itself/Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven?" Should I realize that one's attitude determines how much one enjoys life...
...their search for more enduring gratification in life, many people are seeking spirituality, if not a born-again commitment to organized religion. "Spirituality is in," says theologian Marty, "so much so that I get embarrassed by it." Says Milton Walsh, a Roman Catholic priest who is pastor of St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco: "People want some kind of direction and purpose, the basic 'Who am I? Where am I going...
...John and Lil Cronin listed their white Dutch colonial in Milton, Mass., at 1 p.m. one day last week. At 3, Lisa Looney drove up to take a look. She liked the place. By 6 the Cronins, who were asking $210,000, had accepted a $200,000 offer from Looney and her husband. Says broker Mary Sullivan: "We were astonished at how fast it moved. But that's the way it's been here. Our customer calls have doubled in the first six weeks of 1991 compared with a year...