Word: tropicalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, U.S. tourists leaving Paris have consoled themselves that one pleasure still lay ahead: smuggling one's cache of naughty books, wrapped up in the soiled laundry, past U.S. customs. But official acquiescence is outflanking civil disobedience. This year both Henry Miller's hot-panting Tropic of Cancer and D. H. Lawrence's lukewarm Lady Chatterley's Lover are sold openly in the U.S. But what is no longer forbidden loses half its charm. For the first time since Petronius wrote his Satyricon to titillate Nero, were the printers of the unprintable in danger of insolvency...
...Tropic of Cancer, Miller...
...Tropic of Cancer, Miller...
...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...