Word: badly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rundown service station that was known as a Ku Klux Klan hangout. Damages came to less than $100, but last October the five youths were sentenced to twelve years apiece in prison. A month ago, Judge William Bickett frankly confessed that he might have been guilty of "bad judgment" in the cases of Percy Valle Barfield, 17, Frederick Lockamy, 18, Leo Stewart Jr., 19, Dubois Scotty Gather, 20, and Jesse Jones, 21. Bickett noted that a race riot had broken out in the Benson area before the time of the trial and admitted that he intended the severe sentences...
...that the crassest, most commercial panderers will be curbed by law; beyond this, in legitimate arts and entertainment, a public sense of taste?and humor?will act as the best censor and restore some balance. Gresham's law does not necessarily apply to literature, theater or cinema. The bad drives out the good only temporarily. The point has been made briefly: anything can be shown. Now perhaps the time has come to remember that not everything has to be shown...
...concupiscence in words with artful undermeanings that shocked none. Nowadays, a few greatly gifted writers can effectively employ the familiar quad-riliterals for dramatic or comic effect, but they tend to lose their value through overuse. As George Orwell observed 22 years ago, "If only our half-dozen 'bad' words could be got off the lavatory wall and onto the printed page, they would soon lose their magical quality." That process is well under way. The four-letter pudendicities are now dropped casually into cocktail conversation. But not everyone applauds the fading of the magic...
...Innumerable erotic works, from Ovid's Ars amatoria to Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, in time assumed the stature of classics. Innumerable others were denounced as wicked when they first appeared. Yet almost everyone agrees that there is such a thing as pornography and that it is bad. No less an authority than Henry Miller recently denounced pornography as "a leering or lecherous disguise" that has helped make sexuality joyless. On any level of creative intent, it is hard to defend the bulk of salacious literature being churned out today. Most of it is perverse, narcissistic, brutal, irrational...
...dark glasses and a hat and pasted on long sideburns, and I went to some of these stores in New York. I had thought that Sweden was bad, but Sweden hasn't gone near to the depths of various sex deviations and obsessions that we have gone. I suppose there are sections of this country that have sunk as low as anything in history, because in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah and Pompeii and Rome they didn't have the presses or the motion pictures to stimulate all of this...