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...longer be certain that he will not be embarrassed by defections. Moreover, the rules now require that to be placed in nomination in Miami, a candidate must have the support of 50 delegates-no more than 20 of these from any single state. Thus Governors John Gilligan of Ohio, Milton Shapp of Pennsylvania and Marvin Mandel of Maryland, and Senators Harrison Williams of New Jersey and John Tunney of California, all have abandoned plans to run as favorite sons this year...
...refined sensibility, must produce various and complex results." Eliot here is making a false analogy between traffic jams and dynamoes, and complications of diction, tone, syntax, and meaning in poetry. He is saying that obscurity and complexity are as necessary to the modern poet as blank verse was to Milton simply because they have certain ressemblances to the surface qualities of modern life. Yeat's late poetry is a good example of the implausibility of his contention. "The Second Coming" is no more obscure than a typical poet by Browning, but it can hardly be called anything but modern...
...before the course." Dorothy Parker confessed that in her own poetry she was always "chasing Rimbauds." Alexander Woollcott knew of "a cat hospital where they charged $4 a weak purr." Heywood Broun, drinking a bootleg liquor, sighed, "Any port in a storm." "The groans that greet such puns," claims Milton Berle (who once joked that he had cut off his nose to spite his race), "are usually en vious. The other person wishes he had said...
...case came before the Third District Court of Eastern Middlesex on February 10. Alfred represented himself, and owner Milton M. Starr, with an attorney, represented the shop...
Born in Cambridge, he attended Milton Academy, Harvard College and the Business School, and then embarked on a banking career with the First National Bank of Boston and later the Old Colony Trust Company...