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...Smith wisely lets Milton take the stand in his own defense. Ninety-nine extended quotations of Milton's poetry and prose account for 30% of the main body of the book. Many shorter passages are incorporated into paragraphs of Smith's own prose, so (if we don't count the index, bibliography and other scholarly packaging) maybe 40% of the words here are Milton's. Perusing these passages, it's easy to see why most of America's Founding Fathers "read Milton and revered him" - and even easier to understand why, for at least two centuries, Paradise Lost was widely...
...hasn't been left alone. While it can hit speeds of 70 km/h and dive deeper than 500 m, the path of its annual migration, from Indonesia into the waters of southern Australia, is well known to fishing fleets. And since it starts spawning only after nine years and is usually caught much younger, southern bluefin hasn't reproduced enough to repopulate. In the 1960s fishers took 80,000 tons, mostly for tinned food. As stocks dwindled, the catch was limited to around 12,000 tons a year for the Japanese, Australian and New Zealand operators...
...began her acting career onstage in New York City and with a notable portrayal of Honey in the original 1964 London production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Beverlee McKinsey was best known for her work on the small screen. She earned four Daytime Emmy nominations during her nine-year tenure as the conniving Iris Carrington on the soap opera Another World and captivated audiences as the matriarch on the popular series Guiding Light, which she starred in from...
Humanities professors are drawing up courses for the new General Education curriculum in full force, contributing nine courses to the Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding category—more than a third of all courses approved by the General Education Standing Committee...
...destroying the earth. At some point—not necessarily this point—experimenting with powerful force in biology or physics can become reckless. Kurt Vonnegut, in his novel Cat’s Cradle, which is about the destruction of the Earth by a substance called ice-nine, asks, “What hope can there be for mankind when there are such men…to give such playthings as ice-nine to such short-sighted children as almost all men and women...