Word: tropicalism
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Massachusetts has made some progress since the days when it banned Dreiser's An American Tragedy, but not much. This week, for example, Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer was banned with no fuss, no hysteria, no monkey-trial shenanigans. It was a reasonable hearing in which reasonable men argued their sides before a reasonable judge. Yet the decision revealed that this is still the commonwealth of the Yahoos, the Grundys and the Comstocks...
...Tropic of Cancer, Miller...
...Minneapolis, a book seller was arrested by the police for selling Tropic, but the mayor of the city later issued a statement declaring that the book is not obscene...
...severely criticized for his hasty action in impounding some copies of poet Alan Ginzberg's beat epic, "Howl." Now, according to the story, Hanrahan is a sadder and a wiser cop. After his unhappy experience with "Howl," he is cautious, and only judges a book like Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer in "its total context...
...Parents, not police," should decide in most cases, according to Hanrahan. And Tropic of Cancer may be "hard reading, but it's not obscene...