Word: tropics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Relations is a fascinating, highly readable study of considerable depth. There may be times when he oversimplifies for no other reason than the sake of style. As a result, some superficially slick, at first appealing statements turn out, upon closer examination, to hold very little truth. "The Miller of Tropic of Cancer is a Brooklyn Whitman gone to Paris" --on the surface it is an interesting statement; but beyond that, it seems more facetious than true. If Spender falls into this here, it certainly is not the first time; nor does it lower the merit of the book...
...Goldman the New Journalist have come to terms. The book is neither hamstrung nor hybrid because Goldman no longer attempts to be in two places at once. Ladies and Gentlemen stands clearly outside academic style and respectability. It would hardly be more acceptable as a Columbia faculty product than Tropic of Cancer, yet it draws deeply on the intellectual breadth and critical skill Goldman acquired in his academic apprenticeship...
Recovering from surgery, Author Henry Miller, 82, likes to receive visitors- particularly fellow writers-at his home in Pacific Palisades, Calif., where he lives in quiet, bourgeois comfort. Recently Lawrence Durrell, 62, author of The Alexandria Quartet, dropped in and lounged on Miller's bed, reminiscing. Miller, whose Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn shocked a generation some 40 years ago, said that while he had advanced ideas about sex, he does not approve of the even more radical notions of women's liberation. Denying that he is a misogynist, he said, "I really love women...
...think that fundamentally the critic and the director are enemies--and that's the way it's supposed to be. They each have an important job to do, but they can do it best with absolutely no contact between them. Joseph Strick (director of The Balcony, Ulysses, and The Tropic of Cancer...
...speaker at the American Booksellers Association convention in Los Angeles said he preferred obscenity because it is more "forthright." In fact, "pornography is killing sex." Not too surprising remarks from an octogenarian, except that the speaker happened to be Henry Miller, the granddaddy of the erotic novel (Tropic of Cancer). Skinflick Star Linda Lovelace, a fellow author (at 22 she has already written her autobiography) disagreed: "Sex was dead and films like Deep Throat are bringing it back to life...