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Moore described Tropic as the "adventures of an American in Paris," and compared Miller's anarchic individualism with that of Whitman, Emerson, or Thoreau. "Its seamier passages reflect the life of real people," he told Judge Goldberg: "If this book is obscene, then life is obscene...
...patience with the U.S.-"The only America I like is the America of Whitman, Thoreau and Emerson, and that never really existed"-scatological Novelist Henry (Tropic of Cancer) Miller, 69, slipped into London making noises about chucking it all. "If I had my time over again," he confided, "I wouldn't be a writer or an artist or anything like that. I'd be a shoemaker, a fisherman or something humble. Nowadays our work has no relation to our lives. It's stulti fying. All work is degrading, demoralizing and crushing to the individual...
...championships would have been a complete misnomer. The only American to get past the quarterfinals, Darlene beat Britain's Ann Haydon at Forest Hills, N.Y., 6-3, 6-4, for her second straight title. In an all-Australian men's final, the fifth in six years, Roy Emerson pulled a major upset, routed top-seeded Rod Laver...
Cleared Throats. Emerson (capacity 50) is totally dedicated to the self-help theory. In 16 months, its eight-man faculty has not had a payday ("The faculty supports the college"). When one highly qualified French teacher complained about dirty classroom windows, she was told: "You know we don't have a window washer here, baby. Wash them yourself." She quit on the spot. Nor does Duskin worry about policing students. Eight of them have set up their pads in a cabin outside town-in what combination he cares not. Says Duskin: "You can't lock girls...
...Near-wafer-thin loudspeaker developed by scientists at Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science, which will be marketed in the U.S. by the Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corp. Only three-eighths of an inch thick, it clearly reproduces high-frequency sounds that are scratchy on many present speakers, can be hung on a wall like a picture frame. It will enable Emerson to cut the size of existing hi-fi rigs by two-thirds...