Word: miller
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Perry G. E. Miller, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature until his death in 1963, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for history yesterday...
...Miller won the history award posthumously for his book. The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War. He had not finished the book when he died, and it was completed by his wife...
...Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee. Both ships' performances had amply demonstrated the tactical advantages envisioned by their planners: high speed and the priceless asset of being able to cruise as long as four years without refueling. Because the Big E is nuclear-powered, says Rear Admiral Henry L. Miller, who commanded the ship's task force until mid-February, she "can do just about everything better, easier and faster...
...Smog. Late last year, Miller pointed out, the Big E raced urgently from the U.S. East Coast to Viet Nam under orders "to maintain a speed in excess of 20 knots the entire 16,000-mile trip. This was accomplished with ease." With refueling delays, a conventional carrier could not have made the voyage at any such forced pace. One night, shortly after arriving in the war theater last December, the Enterprise was told that South Viet Nam's Cam Ranh Bay airfield had been made inoperable by rains, and that the carrier's planes were needed...
...impossible to keep pace with the modern world's publication explosion, and recent condemnations seem rather arbitrary. In 1948, the works of Jean-Paul Sartre were condemned for their existential atheism, and in 1952 those of Andre Gide for immorality. Oddly enough, neither Karl Marx nor Henry Miller have ever been Indexed, although their writings were presumably forbidden for Catholics under a provision of canon law that automatically condemns Communist or pornographic books. Last reprinted in 1948, the Index has not had a new entry since 1961, when Rome banned a life of Christ by the late French Biblical...