Word: tropicalism
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...very hard, to keep up with the competition. For just about anything is printable in the U.S. today. All the famed and once hard-to-get old volumes are on the paperback racks, from the Kama Sutra to the Marquis de Sade's Justine. Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, once the last word in unprintable scatology, can often be picked up in remainder bins for 25?. Miller has almost acquired a kind of dignity as the Grand Old Dirty Man of the trade, compared with some of the more current writers. Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis...
...Decent Literature, the Protestant Churchmen's Committee for Decent Publications, and Citizens for Decent Literature, a nonsectarian organization that now has 300 chapters around the country. These groups are shrill, sincere, and sometimes self-defeating. When a Chicago court ruled three years ago that Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer could be sold locally, the C.D.L. flooded Chicago with excerpts of outrageous passages in the book, undoubtedly giving them wider circulation than they had ever before enjoyed in the city...
Classic or simply crummy, the bulk of modern English lewd literature first tumbled into print in the Paris loft of Maurice Girodias, 45, proprietor of Olympia Press. Now, laments the first publisher of Tropic of Cancer, The Black Book, Lolita, Fanny Hill and Candy, "our role is ended." Through the imposition, by his count, of 60 bans, 100 lawsuits and six suspended prison sentences, the French government has finally got through to Girodias. "The astonishing truth is," he says, "that moral and artistic freedom have now become a reality in Britain and the U.S., whereas the same concepts are being...
...trying to interest Wall Street capital in a mining concession on the Massaranduba River, a major tributary far up the Amazon. There is gold in the Massaranduba valley, and rumors of diamonds and emeralds as well. But what fires Jul ian is the chance to explore the tropic frontier, to prospect and map the river and rain forest, to test himself against extreme physical hardships while at the same time proving himself in the heady world of international finance...
...will not be easy, but the decision of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts must take into account that same Court's important ruling in the Tropic of Cancer case here. At that time it said "the First Amendment protects material which has value because of ideas, news, or artistic, literary or scientific attributes." There is also the influence of the recent New York decision permitting Fanny Hill to circulate, as well as that of recent cases in the United States Supreme Court that have leaned toward protection of the writing at issue...