Word: millers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reading the Advocate Anthology is like re-reading your freshman Gen Ed papers three years later; it simply embarrasses you. The best work is outrageously derivative; you suffer for Thomas Huxley or H.L. Mencken or Henry Miller or whoever was being imitated. The worst causes real anguish; only Harvard undergraduates could write so much oddly-arranged verse with obscure Latin titles or such dogged, tedious, unknowingly funny short stories...
Self-Accused. Now, six years later, a second jury has voted for acquittal-all because Detective Thibedeau, Polygrapher Holmes and Miami Herald Reporter Gene Miller spent their spare time tracking down evidence that cast deep doubt on his confession. For one thing, Roman Catholic Shea had apparently undergone agonies of guilt after fathering an illegitimate child in the Philippines: "I didn't want to live," he said. Even more important, Detective Gallagher admitted in nine hours on the stand at the second trial that...
...blue rhinestone-in-the-rough, fortunately set in an afterhours time slot (10-11 p.m., E.S.T.) when the youngsters are in bed and he need play nobody but himself. Como and Williams, he says, are for "the milk-and-cookies crowd. This is my show." His fans include Henry Miller and a satisfying 38% of the big-city Nielsen sample. As Actor Anthony Quinn analyzes Dino's appeal, "All of us seem to be plagued by responsibility, hemmed in by convention. Dean is the symbol of the guy who can go on, get drunk, have no responsibilities...
...part of the overall University push for new gains and advances in terms of equipment and building," Samuel Howard Miller, Dean of the Faculty of Divinity, said yesterday...
...Neil Miller's orchestra, which is fine when it's blaring forth the overtures, sounds embarrasingly thin during quieter numbers like "How Are Things in Glocca Morra" and "Old Devil Moon." Wendy Philbrick's choreography--except for the genuinely funny beginning of Act II--seems humdrum, and fuller of to-ing and fro-ing than the quarters permit. And in a play about better race relations, it's unfortunate that a late line of dialogue, rather than the makeup, informs us that most of the chorus of sharecroppers is supposed to be Negro...