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...barrage of protests from parents, pastors and assorted pressure groups. Defying accusations of censorship, many have suggested some sort of adults-only classification system on the theory that movies are a special, and specially public, medium. Books present problems, too, as for instance Henry Miller's notorious Tropic of Cancer (see BOOKS). But even bestsellers have a smaller audience-and less direct impact-than any movie. Actually, the anti-Hollywood protests have been far milder than might have been expected, considering the varieties of erotica and sexual aberrations explored by today's film makers: fornication, adultery, incest, prostitution...
...scrofulous French novel on grey paper with blunt type."* as Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer might well be described, has now turned up in U.S. bookstores clad in a clean collegiate jacket, tailored at $7.50 by Grove Press, intellectual outfitters to the offbeat, the off-color and the off-limits (in 1959 Grove issued the unabridged Lady Chatterley's Lover). The publishers have so much confidence in Miller's notoriety that they paid the author $50,000 in advance and dumped a 30,000 printing into hospitable bookstores (Scribner and Doubleday, among others, are holdouts) weeks...