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...Social Security compromise indicated that the Administration may have underestimated the common-sense conservatism of the elderly, who gave 60% of their votes to Reagan. Efforts to manipulate the conference, some delegates insisted, ended up hurting the Administration's cause. Said Milton Tupper, 67, a retired Los Angeles businessman: "They could have played a tape from Reagan in which he said, 'I hear there have been some complaints. I have asked the secretary to let you vote on each resolution.' He would have had a chorus of yeses." But the elderly should be flattered by the White...
...Milton Roye, a first-year Education Committee representative, said this week that section surveys indicated that students "are fairly annoyed that there was no public apology by 'Control...
Dealing with new playwrights is in any case, a messy, time-consuming, demoralizing business. Ninety per cent of them have no reason for writing a play beyond being stage-struck; and most manuscripts are either plodding, sentimental TV problem plays, or blank-verse behemoths that would make Milton blanch. The latter are occasionally built on legitimate dramatic impulses, but the authors have no theatre sense, no conception of how to hold the stage, and they smother their ideas with embarrassing language and elephantine pretensions. Many of these playwrights have nobly sacrificed law school, television or movies for Art: they trumpet...
...committee is likely to consider many of the same issues that came up last year, including trade with the Soviet Union, nuclear power, and divestment of stock in companies that do business in South Africa, Milton Katz, Stimson Professor of Law Emeritus, who chaired the committee last year, said after the meeting. "There is not specific reason to anticipate anything new now," he added...
...book--and the whole series--"makes no excuse for the fact that its subject is film," says Cavell. Bringing together sources ranging from Shakespeare and Milton to Freud and Wittgenstein, Cavell examines the movies for such themes as rebirth, liberty, and interdependence...