Word: miller
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Died. Max Miller, 68, author of I Cover the Waterfront and 26 other books; following two strokes; in La Jolla, Calif. The success of Waterfront, a collection of vignettes drawn from assignments as a San Diego reporter, enabled Miller to give up newspapering, but he always retained a feel for the short take and the simple truth-notably with his boyhood adventures in 1933's The Beginning of a Mortal...
Miss Dunnock's acting career includes performances on stage, in films, and on television. Her most notable creation was Linda Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman...
...working on an "oratorio" to be called The Election, "you get cured of the lust for money and you want to produce something-well, heavy." Other experimental rock composers seem motivated more by a restlessness to burst out of conventional molds. San Francisco's Steve Miller, who is writing a suite that will combine Stockhausen-influenced elec tronic music with rhythm-and-blues, says simply: "I don't dig three-minute sections." Classical and Jazz Composer Bill Russo, director of Chicago's Center for New Music, puts it even more decisively: "The music had two directions...
...Last week's speech positions Miller, a moderate Republican, alongside such liberals as Economist John Kenneth Galbraith and Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King, both of whom advocate some sort of guaranteed annual income. In fact, what ideological difference there is on the guaranteed-income issue is largely a matter of emphasis, with conservative supporters apt to put more accent on incentives-and to link their proposals to reductions in what Economist Friedman decries as a "rag bag" of Democrat-administered welfare programs...
...periodical visitations at Oxford Street for all red-haired girls to keep out of sight and all young men with incurable Oxford accents to put on their hats and walk about pretending to be customers." But the practice survived, and the chain's present chairman, scholarly Sir Bernard Miller, 63, started in the Oxford Street store's silk department after reading modern history at Oxford University...