Word: avatars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Avatar, the beleaguered underground newspaper, suffered another legal defeat yesterday in Boston Municipal Court...
Robert Roman, 21, employee of a Boston psychedelic art shop called "Like Nothing Else," was found guilty of selling obscene literature, specifically the 13th issue of Avatar. He received a three-month sentence in the House of Correction...
Edward Beardsley, 27, advertising manager for Avatar, was convicted of possessing obscene material for sale, distribution, or loan. On November 30, Beardsley was working in Avatar's Boston office when members of the vice squad confiscated 5000 copies of various issues...
Judged by Supreme Court tests these issues of Avatar are not obscene. Whether the lower courts will apply those tests is another question. In the recent Boston trial Judge Elijah Adlow denounced "the casuistry of the higher courts"' in obscuring the definition of obscenity. On the basis of a single article Adlow declared Avatar obscene. To ask him to read the entire issue, he joked lamely, would be "cruel and abusive punishment." The problem of determining contemporary community standards didn't puzzle the Judge at all, simply because he didn't even consider it. "I consider myself a broad-minded...
...hope Judge Adlow is an exception. In the forthcoming trials the courts should expose the inexcusable and illegal manipulation of Avatar's permit; they should strike down the dangerous city ordinance which made that manipulation possible. And they should recognize the obvious "socially redeeming values" of Avatar...