Word: tropical
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...Tropic of Cancer, Miller...
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...Boston press, apparently, Harvard and intellectuals were on trial, not the Tropic of Cancer. In an ostensibly proletarian, circulation - conscious fashion, reporters picked away at piddling points that might make Harvard or eggheads look foolish...
Those eager to know the decision in the Boston trial of Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer are in for something of a wait. Usually reliable courthouse sources say that it will probably be another two weeks before Judge Lewis Goldberg of the Suffolk Country Superior Court rules on the novel's obscenity...
Morton Bloomfield, professor of English and an authority on linguistics, was first on the stand yesterday. Where the two witnesses on the previous day had testified as to Tropic's literary merit, Bloomfield was there to discuss Miller's use of "four-letter-words...