Word: tropical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week the expatriate might listen to Henry (Tropic of Cancer) Miller expounding in four-letter words his philosophy of life-the essence of which, Author Putnam says, "was to the effect that prostitutes are about the only pure beings to be found in a world of reeking garbage." There was also frustrated Author Leo Stein, whose loathing of his prolific sister, Gertrude, was a feature of the boulevards. "My God, Sam!" Leo would groan to Author Putnam, "You have no idea how dumb she is! Why, when we were in school, I used to have to do all her homework...
Henry Miller (Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare), who looks like a bald Irish politician, has been puttering at watercolors for 20 years, but privily. He first displayed his stuff in a Greenwich Village bar, more recently in Santa Barbara, Calif., in London and at Yale...
Over Oregon the winds lost much of their icy speed and became a lowering cold front that pushed down the Coast and across the eastern ranges. Snow startled San Francisco for the first time in five years. Over Colorado, the cold front rammed a tropic air mass. Slowly, it began to boil...
Inland from the beautiful, tropic Malabar coast, with its network of backwaters, Communists ambushed police in jungle areas and even dug trenches for battles fought with sticks and spears. In Tanjore, the densely populated, highly irrigated "garden of southern India," they scorched the fertile earth into a desert. Mobs of several thousand laborers drove away landlords and took possession of all available land. Prakasam said the Communists had an espionage system throughout the Madras Secretariat, and regularly published confidential government correspondence...
Renunciation. Europe and Asia, more interested than ever in what the U.S. was up to, would watch the renunciation ceremonies in Manila with sidelong intensity. In a temporary grandstand just outside the old, grey Intramuros, in a welter of tropic steam and emotion, there would be excitement which many a straw-hatted Filipino could feel to his heels...