Word: dickstein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trouble." ^ In the first case, Publisher Ralph Ginzburg appealed a five-year federal sentence for putting the now defunct magazine Eros in the mails, along with a "newsletter" called Liaison and a socalled psychological study titled The Housewife's Handbook on Selective Promiscuity. Ginzburg's Lawyer Sidney Dickstein argued that the court could find "social importance" merely by reading the testimony of assorted literary eminences. While conceding that Liaison was "vulgar" and "sophomoric" ("But that's no reason to put a man in jail"), Dickstein called Handbook "useful" to women "whose normal sexual drives beset them with...