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Maurice Girodias, the shy little Parisian who was the world's foremost publisher of English-language pornography until tightening French censorship put his Olympia Press out of business, often talks about setting up shop in the U.S., but it is difficult to see what he could peddle. Barney Rosset, publisher of Grove Press and in a sense the American Girodias, is way ahead of him. Says Rosset hopefully: "Who knows if the limits have been reached? Just because the scientists split the atom, did they sit back and say, 'Well, that's it'?" The pioneering publisher...
...Barney Rosset...
Denying the charge that the book was sold to capitalize on the obscenity problem Barney Rosset, president of Grove, angrily added, "I have chosen to publish this book because it is a great international classic." (He added frankly, "Sure, we're also trying to sell as many and make as much money as possible...
...panel of nine, however, did not agree with Rosset. Kenneth S. '45, associate professor of English, declared that "The book is designed only to titillate and taunt," claiming that "literacy critics are on dangerous ground defending it as great literature." Added "I didn't like the book.... Miller little literary future...
...Barney Rosset President of grove Press, his attorney, Charles Rembar, and other experts on Henry Miller's controversial novel, Tropic of Cancer, will discuss the Massachusetts decision banning the book at 8:30 p.m. tonight in the Winthrop House dining room...