Word: miltons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drama are contained in the interaction of these four characters with the girls next door. The women include Marcie Braddick (Diana Gamser) an innocent, honest and studious girl from the midwest who enjoyed bake sales in high school, Susan Ward (Victoria Allan), a high falutin' preppie from Milton; and Maggie Cochran (Lisa Beach), an aggressive, sexy wise-cracker. Maggie tells Stanley after he shrinks in tension from her sexual advances, "How do you whistle? Just put your lips together and blow...
Frank Milliken, 63, Kennecott's president, deputized Senior Vice President Milton Stern to justify the purchase of a company for twice its book value. Stern's explanation: "We liked what we saw at Carborundum in terms of the people, products and continuing growth. We know that $66 is good value." Stern also says that Kennecott had to pay a premium price because it was in "a bidding situation"-meaning that it was in competition with other companies interested in acquiring Carborundum...
...Daley, Indira Gandhi, Elvis Presley, Richard Pryor, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, Renata Tebaldi, Queen Victoria, Mary Wells, Jonathan Winters, Edmund Wilson. The trouble is, one could easily draw up at least as impressive a litany of luminaries who had brothers and sisters. Let's see, there was Moses, Milton, Napoleon...
ENGLAND, the "noble and puissant nation" of Milton's poetry, is dying. As the characters in Margaret Drabble's The Ice Age grapple with the meaning of that decline, England's hard times--the "Ice Age" of the title--come to dominate their lives. IRA bombs explode, the economy stagnates and Drabble's heroes try to pick up the pieces. If most of them at the end are not much better off than when they started, the same happily cannot be said for the readers of this wry, compassionate, and suspenseful book...
Kermode, a prominent literary critic on leave from Cambridge University, in England, has written extensively on Shakespeare, Milton, Donne, Spenser and Wallace Stevens...