Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light. Teachers are, as well. A high school teacher of mine taught all there is to know of light and language. He died blind, out of the light. As did John Milton. "When I consider how my light is spent," Milton wrote, substituting light for life...
...graduation is not a law. True, there is a consequence for failing to do these things--no graduation--but there are consequences for failing to do any number of things in life. The choice, however, is still there, with no legal penalty. Slavery is involuntary. Community service is not. MILTON B. ROUSE, Teacher of English Dana Hills High School Dana Point, Calif...
...recall during the Kennedy years, when the first stories of his sexual exploits began to surface, that Milton Berle's wife arrived in Washington from Hollywood and asked what in the world was going on in the White House. "If all of the women who claim to have slept with Kennedy are telling the truth, he would not have strength enough to lift a teacup, let alone deal with Khrushchev." Women or not, Kennedy dealt pretty well with Khrushchev, and that may be the larger reason why Camelot will not fade away...
...know emphatically and beyond any doubt" who stole the art, says Myles Connor, 54, a Milton, Mass., native who is in federal prison for interstate transportation of two paintings stolen in 1975 from the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College. Connor, who appears to have escaped from a Damon Runyon story, says he and a gangster named Bobby Donati, a longtime pal and partner in crime, checked out the Gardner around 1974. "Did I case it?" asks the 5-ft. 7-in., bushy-bearded Connor, who looks more like a visiting professor than a guy who has run with...
...grandiose choral motto, "Thy pleasures, Moderation, give/ In them alone we truly live." Moderation is not quite so enchanting a subject as either the joie de vivre of L'Allegro or the melancholic beauty of Il Penseroso. Nor could any claim that Jennens' verse stands quite equal to the Milton it seeks to reprove. Though the music is still lovely, the final reprimand of Il Moderato seems hardly the proper note on which to end a work largely hymning youthful exuberance and the contemplative life...