Word: notting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Readers who know Henry Miller only by his reputation as the bogeyman of the U.S. Bureau of Customs generally are surprised to discover that in many ways the man is as moralistic as Cotton Mather, and not much more interested in writing fiction. He seems incapable of composing more than...
Joyce the Baboon. It is ironic that, for the most part, Miller remembers to be an artist instead of an orator only in the wacky, obscene, and sometimes brilliantly comic passages that make most of his books unmailable-but that will not be found here. Reading Miller in his scurrilous...
Goldilocks the Victim. But even the present volume has its moments. With great glee, Miller lampoons the shock of the American tourist upon first encountering a Paris pissoir, adding: "I do not find it so strange that America placed a urinal in the center of the Paris exhibit at Chicago...
And Not Abominable. In Raleigh, N.C., News and Observer Columnist Charles Craven discussed a city recreation department snowman contest, said there would be "two divisions-one for white children and one for colored," but "the snow men in both divisions will be white!"
Fired? In Salt Lake City, Mayor Adiel F. Stewart abruptly halted a flowery speech observing the retirement of Fire Chief J. K. Piercey when the chief nudged him, said: "There's some mistake. I'm not retiring."