Word: tropical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...barrage of protests from parents, pastors and assorted pressure groups. Defying accusations of censorship, many have suggested some sort of adults-only classification system on the theory that movies are a special, and specially public, medium. Books present problems, too, as for instance Henry Miller's notorious Tropic of Cancer (see BOOKS). But even bestsellers have a smaller audience-and less direct impact-than any movie. Actually, the anti-Hollywood protests have been far milder than might have been expected, considering the varieties of erotica and sexual aberrations explored by today's film makers: fornication, adultery, incest, prostitution...
...Grove Press announced last week that it would publish Henry Miller's polemic 27-year-old book, The Tropic of Cancer, for the first time in the United States on June 24. Reaction in Cambridge has been so strong that several book stores in the Square have already put the work on sale...
...short stories of this collection are told in the first person and appear in chronological order. As such, they are links in Alec Waugh's own footloose life, beginning with his callow saunterings through Soho restaurants and Mayfair drawing rooms and ending with surprise encounters in tropic seas. As Alec Waugh sojourns from Malayan rice fields to Levantine hospitals, from German opera houses to sleepy islands in the Indian Ocean, his plots rise happily out of the travelogue prose. In The Last Chukka, the British manager of a Siamese lumber camp imagines that he has leprosy and goes jungle...
...former Denver businessmen, Glenn I. Payton and David O'Keefe, bought 12,000 acres of ranch land on the big, outlying Island of Hawaii for $55,000 cash and a $200,000 mortgage. After putting in $270,000 worth of roads, they subdivided the land into 4,000 "Tropic Estates," sold them...
...days. There is a low-keyed humor in Keith Stewart's role as a provincial Ulysses, for the West Baling mechanic has never before set eyes on a piece of foreign currency, taken a shower, or been on the water, and he packs his English woolens for the tropics. But Keith's loving care of craft and his fascination with minutiae of technique will win the reader's respect. In the end, though, it is neither tropic adventures nor miniature marvels that generate the fundamental emotion in Trustee from the Toolroom. That comes from giving a small...