Word: plexus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also the author most often skipped. That is to say, the almost unvarying gait for getting through one of Miller's books is: read four pages, skip four pages. Cynics will suggest that this is because the dirty passages in the Tropics or Sexus, Nexus and Plexus come at four-page intervals. This is shallow thinking. Actually the canny reader skips through Miller not so much to concentrate on naughtiness as to avoid what comes between. What does is ill-written blather on one of two subjects: 1) the downtrodden state of artists in the U.S. (and their uptrodden...
...kind of newspaper no man's land-a journey accelerated to some degree by four successive changes of command and a proliferation of editors. Today the Trib is out of the running. It cannot hope to match the Daily News's direct appeal to the solar plexus. Nor can it compete effectively with the Times, a paper that is constantly finding so much more news fit to print that it is now in a class all by itself...
...Passos, Exra Pound, and Lawrence Durrell have applauded Miller's artistry and have severely attacked the laws of censorship which have prevented the publication of many of his works in this country. Other better known works of Miller include Troplo of Capricorn, Black Spring. The World of Sex, Sexus, Plexus, and Max and the White Phagooytes...