Word: tropical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...Tropic of Cancer, Miller...
...Tropic of Cancer, Miller...
...Trib's self-appointed censor was Editor William D. Maxwell, 61. Recently hospitalized, Maxwell waded selectively through his paper's bestseller list, was scandalized by The Carpetbaggers and Tropic of Cancer. "I found language in there that you wouldn't hear in a men's locker room," said Maxwell, whose father was a Methodist gospel singer. He fired an order to Book Editor Robert Cromie. Henceforth, said Maxwell, the Trib's bestseller list, which is based on sales reports from bookstores, will include only books that pass Maxwell's muster...
FICTION 1. The Agony and the Ecstasy,Stone (1)* 2. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (2) 3. Mila 18, Uris (3) 4. The Edge of Sadness, O'Connor (5) 5. The Winter of Our Discontent, Steinbeck (4) 6. The Carpetbaggers, Robbins (6) 7. Tropic of Cancer, Miller (7) 8. Rembrandt, Schmitt (8) 9. A Shooting Star, Stegner (9) 10. Mothers and Daughters, Hunter