Word: tropical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...romance (Michael Scarlett), taught some American sugar planters' children English and math in Cuba, junketed around Europe as tutor to a 14-year-old polio victim. Later, he drew on his Cuban impressions to write two more apprentice novels, Cockpit and The Son of Perdition, unlikely tales of tropic adventure. In Ask Me Tomorrow, Cozzens used his European experiences for a crisply satiric self-portrait, complete with a characteristic blast at the American expatriates...
California, said Fred Allen, is all right if you are an orange. Henry (Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer) Miller believes that it is even more all right if the oranges are the ones painted by Hieronymus Bosch in his famed Millennium- enigmatic little cosmological fruit "far more delectable, far more potent, than the Sunkist." For Author Miller is a devotee of the great Dutch painter (c. 1450-1516), who is believed to have been a follower of a heretical order called the Brethren and Sisters of the Free Spirit...
...exotic mechanism. One day soon, perhaps late in April, perhaps early in May, the Bird will make its first flight. From a sickle-shaped launching pad near a sunny vacation shore the Bird will be fired, minus its warhead, on an 1,800-mile test shot southeastward across tropic islands and into an empty...
...easing, his inflamed left ear cleared. So much better was Ike feeling that he stripped off his jacket, lazily drove golf-balls from a coco mat into a canvas shield stretched down the starboard side of Canberra's open deck while the ship lolled nearly dead in tropic water. He ducked into bed at 9 o'clock, stayed abed nearly twelve hours, rose for a late breakfast (prunes, oatmeal, toast and jelly, Sanka) and a look at Washington reports radioed or relayed by courier seaplane. The President suggested extra guests for dinner, i.e., Canberra's officers picked...
This book is an advance segment of the memoirs of the occasionally printable author of Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, and it makes a readable, sometimes hilarious appetizer to a more thorough work scheduled to come out early next year under the title Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch...