Word: tropicalism
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Pipe Session. At 7:45 the two men emerged into the tropic sunshine and made another rattling journey, this time to Wake's new coral-pink administration building. Their advisers-General Omar Bradley, Frank Pace, Admiral Radford, Philip Jessup and Averell Harriman for the President, Korean Ambassador John Muccio and Brigadier General Courtney Whitney for MacArthur-were waiting. The President suggested that it was no weather for coats. Said MacArthur, pulling out a pipe: "Do you mind if I smoke, Mr. President...
Even before Author Anaïs Nin (rhymes with bean) had found a commercial publisher for her work, her name was a password among the avantgarde. Novelist Henry (Tropic of Cancer) Miller proclaimed her unpublished diary worthy to "take its place beside the revelations of St. Augustine, Petronius, Rousseau, Proust and others." By 1944 Paris-born Author Nin had arrived in Greenwich Village, privately published three books, and decided to "convert and transpose the diary of 65 volumes into a full, long novel . . ." Like her other two published novels Ladders to Fire (1946) and Children of the Albatross...
...tunes. Playwright Tennessee Williams (A Streetcar Named Desire) explores more horror south of the Mason-Dixon line in the story of a frigid, middle-aged writer's passion for a horsy Mexican girl, also contributes some frank blank verse titled Counsel about Paris whorehouses. Expatriate Novelist Henry Miller (Tropic of Cancer) writes his way around his subject (Rimbaud) and plunges defiantly into his own thrice-told life and hard times. Most engaging poet: William Carlos Williams, who keeps his verse free and his imagery fresh...
...through the scrub, guerrilla riflemen made short, sharp little raids against government outposts. In & out of the piny mountain country on Nicaragua's northern flank, armed, machete-toting men filtered mysteriously. In Guatemala and Costa Rica dusty little companies, in faded denim and khaki, marked time in the tropic heat...
...rivers, of which the Amazon proper is the best example, carry silt, and when they overflow, leave rich deposits on the land. The black rivers are stagnant and so acid that even fish cannot live in them. The white rivers have ceased to serve as anything but drainage canals. Tropic downpours have long since washed away all fertility from their valleys...