Word: tropicalism
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...ancient whiffs of brimstone still linger on Boston streets. And those who like to concern themselves with threats to the Commonwealth's morals will breathe a sigh of relief. But by far the largest group of people--those who have not yet purchased their copy of Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer--won't even be able to find out what the fuss is all about...
Student, faculty, and administrators at Brown University have joined in an effort to overturn a ruling by the Rhode Island Attorney General prohibiting the sale of Henry Miller's novel, Tropic of Cancer...
Barnaby C. Keeney, President of Brown, members of the faculty, and students have since been planning moves to test the legality of Nugent's move. A week ago two undergraduates advertised in the Brown Daily Herald copies of Tropic for sale; Nugent will investigate them, if he finds that they have violated a state...
Meanwhile, the Providence Public Library has defied the Attorney General's order and continued to circulate Tropic of Cancer, Nugent has threatened to arrest both the librarian and any cardholder who tries to remove the book from the library...
...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...