Word: millers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...N.C.A.S.P., a veteran advocate of party-line causes, was the conference chairman. Quietly working around him was the same hard core of trained Communists, the same muddle of the earnest and the inexperienced. The list of sponsors included such familiar leftist names as Playwright Arthur (Death of a Salesman) Miller, Novelist Norman (The Naked and the Dead) Mailer, Composer Aaron Copland, Poet Louis Untermeyer, New York Times Critic Olin Downes...
...Mary Britton Miller took stock. She had written five volumes of poems and a rather good novel, In the Days of Thy Youth, a story of a deep attachment between twins. Yet Mary Miller had never produced a sound critical success, had never come close to authoring a bestseller. Was she, after all, just another New England spinster with literary inclinations...
...Novelist Miller thought that the trouble might be her placid style. She decided to take a completely new course. She picked herself the pseudonym of Isabel Bolton and, in 1946, published a novel in a new, free style, Do I Wake or Sleep. It consisted pretty much of the interior monologues of a woman of intuitions, like Isabel Bolton. This time, the critics were watching. The New Yorker's Edmund Wilson found the Bolton style "exquisitely perfect in accent"; some of it he compared to The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises. Said the Nation's Diana...
...lyric, not a dramatic talent. Whenever she tries to speak through a character who is not her own kind and her own sex, she loses her firm tone of voice. But, speaking for herself, Author Bolton has much to say. She says it in a style which Mary Britton Miller should have tried sooner...
Schlesinger, associate professor of History, was joined in his support of the rally by C. Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History; Seymour E. Harris '20, professor of Economics; Michael Karpovich, professor of History; and Perry G. Miller, professor of American Literature. Of the five, Schlesinger is the only one attending the rally...