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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Furthermore, he claimed that the writing was filled with "foul language, obscenity, and indecent sexual acts." One of the several criteria for obscenity set forth by the U. S. Supreme Court insists that "the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest." Yet the Hansons could not have judged the material "as a whole" since they admitted that they had looked at only parts of the books. And some of the score of "concerned citizens" who joined the Hansons in signing a petition of complaint had not read a single paragraph of the allegedly offensive...

Author: By Caldwell Ticomb, | Title: Satan and Sex in School: A Worldwide Plot | 12/13/1969 | See Source »

...THERE they are: a supreme book, a good book, and a superior book. Yet the Rev. Hanson said of them that literary value "may be hard to find." Furthermore, another of the Supreme Court's criteria for obscenity requires that a work be "utterly without redeeming social value," whereas each of these three works-literary quality aside-is clearly a document of unusual social significance and value...

Author: By Caldwell Ticomb, | Title: Satan and Sex in School: A Worldwide Plot | 12/13/1969 | See Source »

Although most demonstrators were willing to risk arrest for trespassing, they agreed to follow the injunction after it was issued to avoid jail sentences for contempt of court...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: 91 OBU Members Leave Building After Injunction | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

Besides rebounding well, the Crimson worked effectively as a team, passing sharply against a shifting B.U. zone. When the Terriers pressed full-court, Dover and Bozek broke through to score or pass for easy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Basketball Team Overpowers Strong Boston University Squad, 95-71 | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...freshmen turned several Harvard mistakes into a brief 67-66 margin midway through the second half. Guard Jean Wilkinson, with fire-up halfhandling against a full-court press and James Brown, who scored 12 points in the final seven minutes, sparked the Crimson outburst that built a 15-point lead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Basketball Team Overpowers Strong Boston University Squad, 95-71 | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

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