Word: burlesk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twelve defendants faced a nonjury trial before General Sessions Court Judge Harold H. Greene on various misdemeanor charges of violating Washington, D.C.'s obscenity ordinance. Among the twelve were four dancers accused of giving "an indecent exposition" after admittedly "baring their breasts" at the capital's Gayety Burlesk Theatre. Common as it was, the case produced a precedent that promised to baffle prosecutors all over the country simply because Judge Greene asked the prosecutor: What are "national standards" in sexual expression...
...tossing out high-flown poetic rhetoric and shucking off the straitjacket of traditional verse forms. Above all, the Imagist doctrine of quick impact was made for Cummings. Explaining his own techniques, he said: "I can express it in 15 words, by quoting The Eternal Question and Immortal Answer of Burlesk. viz.: 'Would you hit a woman with a baby?-No, I'd hit her with a brick...