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...first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden. - John Milton, Paradise Lost...
Most of the critics are directing their fire from grounds first staked out by Economist Milton Friedman, who contends that the nation's money supply should be expanded within a fairly steady range of 2% to 6% a year-just enough to match the "normal" pace of economic expansion (TIME, Jan. 10). To go above or below these limits, he says, is to invite inflation or deflation. The board in recent years has shifted radically and rapidly from tight money to easy money and back again, sometimes increasing the money supply at an annual rate...
...seems that in the past sixty years our culture has taken such a sharp turn that the problem in England and the United States lies in a re-interpretation of our own culture--Milton's milieu or earlier--a culture almost as foreign to us as the Greeks or Romans were to our literary fore-bearers...
...good point, that--Milton being at about the turning point. After Milton, I think you'd agree, things became more intelligible. Professional instruction, as it were in English Literature, might very well stop soon after Milton. There's obviously a case for people being taught how to read Chaucer; people don't get into Chaucer just by the light of nature, not as well as they do into Tennyson. I see no excuse for tremendous courses on Tennyson. I'm a great admirer of Tennyson, but I think courses haven't helped him and won't. Milton's the turning...
...Have we developed to a point in our own culture where we only need to study in schools those who would be totally inaccessible, much as the Classics were to a man of Milton's time...