Word: capricorn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noticed that I was not saying much. "What have you read by Henry Miller?" he asked. And he plunged into a discussion of the English language's most banned author. Of course, he said, he hadn't read Tropic of Cancer or Tropic of Capricorn. "The Erotica shelf was locked," he explained...
California, said Fred Allen, is all right if you are an orange. Henry (Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer) Miller believes that it is even more all right if the oranges are the ones painted by Hieronymus Bosch in his famed Millennium- enigmatic little cosmological fruit "far more delectable, far more potent, than the Sunkist." For Author Miller is a devotee of the great Dutch painter (c. 1450-1516), who is believed to have been a follower of a heretical order called the Brethren and Sisters of the Free Spirit...
This book is an advance segment of the memoirs of the occasionally printable author of Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, and it makes a readable, sometimes hilarious appetizer to a more thorough work scheduled to come out early next year under the title Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch...
...convention's chief work was the approval of a "Capricorn contract between the races," which would replace racial loyalties with African patriotism. Since it had already gone through eleven drafts, the resolution passed largely without dissent. Some of its provisions: 1) common citizenship in each territory; 2) single voting roll for all citizens, but more than one vote for specially qualified citizens; 3) gradual release of all land to buyers, regardless of race; 4) improved educational standards so that children of all races can eventually be taught in the same schools. The Capricorn Society's idea for multiple...
...Opposition. Blacks have criticized the Capricorn Society because they feel that its multiple vote is merely a device to preserve white supremacy; whites who think Capricorn's sponsors are dilettantes out of touch with reality bitterly refer to it as the "Leprechaun Africa Society." To show their determination, members are ready to run for office to get their ideas adopted. The idealists left Lake Nyasa's shores knowing that theirs is an uphill struggle: in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, as the party sheepishly separated to return to segregated life, they were eyed with a mixture of scorn and antipathy...