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...reknowned literary critic began the spring half of the annual Charles Eliot Norton Lectures yesterday with a lecture on John Milton...
Speaking to an audience of 200 at Sanders Theater, Bloom related Milton's epic poem "Paradise Lost" to the theory set forth in his 1973 book "The Anxiety of Influence." He has argued in several of his works that all poets, especially those since Milton, are torn between wishes to imitate and to surpass earlier poets who inspire them. To do so, Bloom says, they take and disguise the work of their predecessors...
...three students were returning to their car, which had run out of gas on Canada's Highway 401 near the town of Milton. According to police accounts, the students thought they were walking on the shoulder of the highway but were actually on the road...
Comedy was prevalent on TV in the late '40s and early '50s, but most of it took the form of live variety shows like Milton Berle's Texaco Star Theater. In 1953 I Love Lucy won the first Emmy Award given in the situation comedy category...
...themselves, share a fluid style embracing both the extravagances of pulp epic and the flat-light simplicity of vintage Archie comics. Dave Stevens' The Rocketeer (Eclipse; 70 pages; $19.95), set in the '30s, teems with robust adventure and romantic misalliance, all drawn in the scrumptious Sunday- funnies style of Milton Caniff. And the three volumes titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (First Publishing; $9.95 each) sport with the whole genre, portraying a quartet of Testudinatas, trained by a wise rat in the refinements of Japanese martial arts, as they swing through various U.S. metropolitan areas righting wrongs and creating mischief...