Word: balzac
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent example of the Customs censor ship was the barring of Voltaire's Candide, for centuries a classic, yet officially considered unfit for U. S. consumption. Other famed books barred from U. S. ports include unexpurgated editions of the Arabian Nights, various of the works of Aristophanes, Balzac, Rousseau, Havelock Ellis. Ridiculous, said Senator Cutting, was a situation in which "two-by-four clerks" could decide what the U. S. public might read. Allied with Senator Cutting were Senators Borah, Wheeler, Tydings, Norris, La Follette...
Some of the books banned as objectionable by the customs employees are: Casanova's "Memoirs", Balzac's "Les Contes Drolatiques", Rabelais' "Oeuvres", Margueritte's "La Garconne", and "Prostituee", Marguerite de Navarre's "Hentameron", Longas' "Daphnis et Chloe", Galland's "Les Milles et Une Nuits", Rousscau's "Confessions", and Boccaccio's "Decameron...
Once again the clarions of the moral purists are sounded in the already tired cars of the country as works by Balzac. Rabelais, Rousseau, Boccaccio, and many others, on route to a Cambridge book store are declared to be of an "obscene nature" and kept from entering the country by the New York Customs House officials...
...Morale et l'Art apropos de Balzac", Professor Allard, Emerson...
While Harvard has not the same abundance of visiting lecturers for the second half-year that were present during the first, one course that should be tried by all vagabonders literarily inclined is that of Professor Campbell, exchange professor from the University of Michigan, on the European Novel from Balzac. Today at 11 o'clock Professor Campbell lectures on Zola in Sever...