Word: miltons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...monetarists, those epigones of Milton Friedman who are among the only Americans with reason to rejoice over Volcker's moves, waffled. For the first time a financial official seemed to be taking their advice to heart; conservative monetarists have called for direct control of the money supply for years. But Friedman wrote a week after the program's announcement that the new Fed policy had to be fully carried through or it wouldn't work. In other words, if the policy reduces inflation then the monetarists will take credit, but if it doesn't they can say their ideas failed...
...people waited patiently. Patty Taylor, a pretty, blond twelve-year-old from Milton, held a handmade sign that read I LOVE YOU, JOHN PAUL II. Why did she and her family pick this spot? "Because he'll have to slow down to turn the corner." One sign stood out even more than the big WITAM, JAN PAWEL II placard above LaSalle's bar. VIVA EL PAPA it read. And in small letters below LOS CUBANOS. "I am from Miami Beach," the old woman said who held it. "I am Cuban." She was Noemi Sarmenteros, 75 years...
...enters expecting the familiar recorder of a vanished culture, the cafe and boulevard life of the Belle Epoque, the lowlife of the cabarets, the well-known cast of characters-May Milton, La Goulue, Paul Sescau, Jane Avril. One leaves with an impression of precocious modernity, partly because Lautrec's caustic and tender view of the world speaks directly to our culture of narcissism. Lautrec's art was about watching; as Stuckey observes, each figure spins in its own solitude in the midst of the schedules of lust and sociability: "In Lautrec's paintings glances are only seldom...
...senior at Milton Academy, Dick Jr. was a multiple-letter winner, varsity football captain, and strong college prospect. He considered Harvard, Boston University, Holy Cross and Cornell. But he says, "I pretty much made the decision right after I visited Cornell...
People's China edited by David and Nancy Milton (Random House; $3.95). Marxism in the mysterious East...