Word: millers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston, 79-year-old Dickinson S. Miller, an ex-Harvard professor of philosophy, fought eviction from his one room apartment with new fervor. When his landlady snitched his key some months ago, he had made the window his doorway. But when "a sudden incursion of people" swept away his bed, the lights and most of the furniture while he was in the bath, Professor Miller went to law. He wanted his bed back...
Novelist Henry Miller, a Paris expatriate when the going was good, is famed for his ability to write obscenities that are disgusting rather than pornographic. Last week in broadminded Paris, his onetime refuge, an anti-vice organization was trying to ban his books. And in Monterey, Calif., where he now finds the going better, a less familiar Miller talent was on display: his watercolors...
...Henry Miller (Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare), who looks like a bald Irish politician, has been puttering at watercolors for 20 years, but privily. He first displayed his stuff in a Greenwich Village bar, more recently in Santa Barbara, Calif., in London and at Yale...
...become the hero of a group of neo-bohemians who live in tents and huts along the nearby highways, talking and practicing Freud and D. H. Lawrence, and letting their willing women keep house and hold jobs. In Harper's Magazine this month, Mildred Edie Brady calls the Miller devotees "the new cult of sex and anarchy"; their bible, says she, is a book by Wilhelm Reich entitled Function of the Orgasm (says Henry Miller, who claims no responsibility for the cult: "A boring, deadly book"). When they can find the time, most of the cultists paint, whether they...
...Miller's own watercolors are full of gabled doors, heavenly bodies (he believes in astrology), female sex symbols, eyes("I'm not perverse, but the idea of looking through a keyhole . . . fascinates me"), and echoes of Paul Klee and Abraham Rattner...