Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...During 1948, at least 600,000 Americans will die from the nation's No. 1 killer: 1. Cancer. 2. Infantile paralysis. 3. Highway accidents. 4. Heart disease. 5. Virus...
Died. Basil Harris, 58, board chairman of the U.S. Lines; of cancer; in Manhattan. He became a partner (with the late Kermit Roosevelt) in the Roosevelt Steamship Co. in 1923, joined the U.S. Lines as vice president in 1931, served in 1939-40 as Commissioner of Customs and assistant to Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau...
...books that followed Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn exhibited less dirt-and less talent. Miller overwrote for the sheer sake of verbosity; he made hyperbole into a principle of composition. Everything he described was either incredibly glorious or incredibly distasteful. On a visit to Greece he felt "a stillness so intense that for a fraction of a second I heard the great heart of the world beat. . ." Revisiting the cities of America he found "a vast, unorganized lunatic asylum . . . the most horrible place on God's earth." Critic Alfred Kazin once said of him: "Is there anything...
Hyperbole & Profanity. Thus waders along the Tropic of Cancer could find some evidence of real talent there: Miller's portraits of all the phonies he knew in Paris-and he knew plenty-were biting and edged with a wild, outrageous humor...
When Henry Miller's first novel, Tropic of Cancer, came out in Paris in 1931, it was greeted with shocked silence, snickers, or the sound of licking lips. Its admirers took its weedy profusion of four-letter words for daring wit and convention-defying "art." Miller became the hero of Bohemian barflies and Greenwich Villagers everywhere...