Word: chatterley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...notoriety, Lady Chatterley's Lover is, essentially, just an extravagant sentimentalization of sex and nature through which D. H. Lawrence passionately protested against industrial civilization and Victorian prudery. But despite what Katherine Anne Porter has called its "imbecilic harmlessness," the book still draws devout support, as was shown during last year's obscenity trial in Britain when Lawrence's four-letter words and what the prosecutor called his "reverence for man's genitals" became great crusading issues. Certified by the court as not obscene, Lady Chatterley last week came onstage as a play (at a private...
...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 ahead of the announced publication date. All previous attempts...
...used. Cancer is a very dirty book indeed. Saying so, the critic runs the risk of being called an anti-intellectual or, worse yet, a square. But in this case, perhaps, the higher sophistication lies on the side of squareness-in the sense that the most cogent objections to Chatterley were voiced not in court or in the newspapers, which all tried hard to be broadminded, but in the intellectual pages of Encounter, in which Critic Colin Welch maintained, squarely, that the book advocates a return to some sort of dark, druidical pre-Christianity and the substitution of phallus worship...
People have rushed to the stores to buy copies of the book before any legal difficulties ensue and threaten the sales, as almost happened with Lady Chatterley's Lover two years ago. "I suspect there will be a stink over Cancer," Miller noted...
...King. Soon tongues were wagging over the sherry: "A vote for Leavis is a vote for Lawrence ... A vote for Starkie is a vote for Rimbaud ... A vote for Gardner is a vote for Chatterley ... A vote for Graves is a vote for Graves." Candidate Starkie crowed happily that Oxford "is the most spiteful place I've ever been in," and made her point by scoffing at her rivals...