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...hemisphere solidarity who fear that the phrase may remain only a phrase. Mistrust of U.S. intentions, plus mistrust of U.S. ability to take effective military action in the far south, had hitherto hampered U.S. efforts to get military cooperation from those countries which lie south of the Tropic of Capricorn. Last fortnight Argentina's Foreign Minister Emeritus, Carlos Saavedra Lamas, urged a conference of Foreign Ministers of the 21 American republics to agree on plans for common defense (TIME, June 16). Last week such a conference seemed hardly an immediate necessity, so well had diplomacy worked behind the scenes...
...called Greed of the Meek and And Give Me Death. Last week the Theatre Guild announced that the cycle would be called A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed, that the titles of the other seven plays would be: A Touch of the Poet, More Stately Mansions, The Calms of Capricorn, The Earth's the Limit, Nothing Lost Save Honor, Man on Iron Horseback, A Hair of the Dog. While working on these, O'Neill has also written a non-cycle play poetically entitled The Ice Man Cometh. Now busy working on the cycle from...
...another legal battle like that over Joyce's Ulysses, Publisher Laughlin last month brought out The Cosmological Eye, a book of more or less castrated selections from Miller's writing. By doing this much, New Directions called attention to Miller's latest long book, Tropic of Capricorn, published in Paris this year...
Tropic of Cancer was a dizzying personal record of sexual adventure, straycat poverty and street wanderings in Paris, formless and plotless in any classical sense, savagely anti-artistic. Its end-of-the-rope eloquence was, however, apprentice work compared with Tropic of Capricorn, which deals with Miller's jobholding and job-avoiding life in Manhattan and Brooklyn before he went to Paris. Written in a naked language not of literature but of a man's talking, unquotable except by the page, Tropic of Capricorn would mean plenty to countless men-in-the-street. The "dithyrambic prose" which excited...
...Tropic of Capricorn runs through the Chaco, the Tropic of Cancer just north of Cuba. The area between the Tropics includes Central America, the jungles of the Amazon, the West Indies, the least habitable parts of Africa, the East Indies and the deserts of northern Australia...