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The good old cause: John Milton's Areopagitica revisited.(Literature)
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October 1, 2005|
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Idle expens was spar 'd, for guests were none, No drunken riot, verses fescennine, Or antic dancing marr 'd the awful day. In conscious rectitude the Bridegroom smil 'd Upon his Consort with superior love, And pass 'd the hours til night in discourse high To justifie to her the wayes of Man.
--from James McAuley's "A Wedding Piece", as John Milton might have handled the union of St George (England) and Una (the Church of England) in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene
JAMES MCAULEY thought Wordsworth got it wrong when he wrote:
Milton! Thou shouldst ...
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A History That Stands The Test of Time
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...History of the 1920's," by Frederick Lewis Allen. Published, astonishingly, almost...in 1930-31 was an afterword. Allen had the prescience to understand...must have been heady stuff for Allen, who was 41 when the book appeared...
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Only yesterday. (essay) (editorial)
Magazine article from: Wines & Vines
; ...If you can find a copy, read Frederick Lewis Allen's classic "Only Yesterday...to find it in larger libraries. Allen was a deft writer and was editor...were hardly organized at all." Allen added: "Nothing in recent American...
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1920s growled, but it was Wall Street that roared.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; ...unprecedented economic agony, Frederick Lewis Allen came forth with ``Only Yesterday...nonfiction annals. Premier historian Allen subtitled his work ``An Informal...socio-cultural history. Now Allen's book is with us anew, issued...
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The Intercessor.(Brief Article)(Poem)
Magazine article from: Sojourners
; ...orbit. There I shook the Seraphim. There I wrestled Leviathan. There I shifted the destiny of the universe. FREDERICK LEWIS ALLEN is a former pastor and college teacher. He lives with his wife and four small children in Salem, Oregon.
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More than perhaps any other decade, the 1920s defined 20th-century America.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...immortalized almost immediately after it ended by Frederick Lewis Allen, a gifted journalist whose Only Yesterday...standard work ever since. Now it is time for Allen to move over. Nathan Miller does not have Allen's stylistic pizzazz, but he is a lucid...
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A rhapsody in chrome, 75 years young
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; Michael J. Lewis International Herald Tribune 05-27...the social and political ones. As Frederick Lewis Allen reported in his magisterial account...right to fret about this, since, as Allen also notes, the majority of arrests...
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Avoiding obstetric pitfalls. (Clinical Pearls).
Magazine article from: OB GYN News
; ...the labor and delivery suite. Allen's Law, discovered by the famous Yale historian Frederick Lewis Allen, states that "everything is more...true in obstetrics as is Agnes Allen's Law, which was first proposed...
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Horizontal Cities.(sensing a shift to a more positive opinion about the suburbs)
Magazine article from: Reason
; ...the 1920s, when social critic Lewis Mumford suggested that if "the...in castigating what historian Frederick Lewis Allen dubbed "the suburban nightmare" and efficiency expert Christine Frederick derided as "sugary and commonplace...
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Gangsters Aren't Good Guys
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...the 1920s into (the phrase is Frederick Lewis Allen's) "the ballyhoo years...important, radio had arrived. As Allen wrote, "The national mind had...such as submachine guns. And as Allen wrote part of the problem was...
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Prolific U.S. Naval Historian, Biographer Nathan Miller Dies
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...standard history of the decade was written by Frederick Lewis Allen in 1931, but, he wrote, "Now it is time for Allen to move over. Nathan Miller does not have Allen's stylistic pizzazz, but he is a lucid...
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