Word: books
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...critics contend, the artist's license to show and do all creates an audience of voyeurs passively feeding on their fantasies. In the visual arts, as in literature, "the cult of utterness," in one critic's phrase, tends to devalue and depersonalize human sexuality. In an essay in the book Language and Silence, an eloquent condemnation of pornography, Literary Critic George Steiner objected: "Sexual relations are, or should be, one of the citadels of privacy, the nightplace where we must be allowed to gather the splintered, harried elements of our consciousness to some kind of inviolate order and repose...
...tends to be uneven: two steps forward, one step back. Whatever the disposition of the new Supreme Court, there is real danger of repressive action at the local level?in all likelihood by policemen and prosecutors not intellectually equipped to judge the artistic or social merits of a book or film...
...hero to appeal to blacks. B & B has signed up about 700 groceries, barbershops, gas stations and even auto dealerships to offer and redeem the stamps in the San Francisco Bay area and Los Angeles. Customers get four stamps for each dollar spent, and when they have collected a book of 1,200 stamps, they are entitled to $3 in free goods or services. Merchants, who pay about 1½? for each four stamps, appear enthusiastic. Jesse Porter, a barber in Berkeley, reports that "kids keep coming in all the time now for haircuts just to get the stamps...
...Gladewater. "It's impossible to get risk money now," says Carter. Adds Jim Clark, a small operator: "People who don't understand the business become angry after a series of dry holes. An oilman will shrug it off if he can, put an X in his book, and go to the next...
...thesis of this protest-placard of a book is that the time has come for man to stop tugging his forelock before the nonexistent authorities of the universe and openly admit that he will not settle for anything less than divine everlasting life...