Word: life
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...near-magical powers of vinegar is that it is unusually rich in potassium, and he rates this as the element most important in stimulating growth. In cold fact, even apple-cider vinegar (in the amounts he prescribes) is decidedly poor in potassium. And although this element is essential to life, its relationship to growth is unknown...
...cosmic. In the present collection-largely a sampling of the literary glue that holds together the naughty passages of such works as Tropic of Cancer, Sexus, and Plexus-he interrupts a reasonably interesting travel piece to proclaim that "we are to know one day what it is to have life eternal-when we have ceased to murder." Such gaseous evangelizing, in support of love, life and art, and in denunciation of the sorry life led by U.S. materialists, soon leaves the reader wheezing...
...from one of Miller's most mailable literary essays is typical: "Joyce, the mad baboon, herein gives the works to the patient antlike industry of man which has accumulated about him like an iron ring of dead learning." In a collection of aphorisms, the reader learns that "in life's ledger, there is no such thing as frozen assets." If the sage of Big Sur were to be judged from this book alone, it would be hard to justify Editor Durrell's prophecy that Miller may one day be classed with Whitman and Blake...
Black Orpheus (French). Director Marcel Camus (no kin to Novelist-Playwright Albert) has fashioned an impressive, poetic film from an adaptation of the Orpheus legend. The unknown Negro cast, the graceful transformation of the original, and the breathtaking image presented of life as a tropical carnival earned it the 1959 Grand Prix at Cannes...
...Blows (French). The story of a small boy's flight from the soiled, loveless world of his parents adds up to a moving metaphor for all humanity trapped in the relentless round of daily life...