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Fanny and the Commonwealth met head on before Justice Macaulay on May 27 in Suffolk County Superior Court. A full day of testimony saw Assistant Attorney General John E. Sullivan call but one witness, as the publisher enlisted the assistance of five Massachusetts English experts, including John M. Bullitt '43, professor of English and Master of Quincy House...
Testifying for the book, Bullitt said that Cleland was "presenting here a moral situation in which he is affirming certain moral values, certain attitudes. The structure of this affirmation is to set somewhat in opposition the idea of sensual delight on the one hand to . . . prudence, or rationality, on the other. . . . The sense of the novel can be construed as the education of a young woman in moral life; she learns . . . the value of love." Bullitt suggested further that "this clearly is a piece of rather remarkable social history of interest to anyone who is interested in fiction...
John Marshall Bullitt, Master of Quincy House, sped to pry the door open with his trusty crowbar. This method proved unsuccessful, however, and meanwhile two people fainted from lack...
Switching his tactics, Master Bullitt drove his private elevator, located in the adjacent shaft, down to the basement. Then, by means of a human chain, the trapped students were lifted out of the escape hatch at the top of the "people's elevator" into the neigh boring one. Within fifteen minutes the crippled conveyance had been completely evacuated and Quincy House had returned to normalcy...
...There's not a single dirty word in the book," answered Bullitt...