Word: dirtier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...response to his clear rejection by the members of his own party, John Lindsay chastized New Yorkers for allowing their city to be "captured by the forces of reaction and fear." Reaction? We're reacting, all right-to streets that are dirtier, to air that is fouler, to a public-school system breaking down at almost every level, to a three-year 100% increase in the number of persons on welfare and to skyrocketing taxes levied in order to keep the whole mess of an incompetent administration "moving". Afraid? Who us? Every ten hours in our "fun" city, there...
...business," he explains, "because frankly the pictures aren't that different." He even welcomes the censorship attempts of some newspapers when they change the ads for Days of Sin and Nights of Nymphomania to something like Days of Naughtiness and Nights of ?, because "it makes things seem even dirtier in the reader's imagination...
...comedies are seldom even "well made;" they tend to consist of a series of one-liners drawn from the shallow folkloric pool of stag humor. The jokes get dirtier as the show goes along, creating a facsimile of dramatic climax...
With posters go protest buttons, and they are popping up dirtier than ever-at least in the eyes of the Manhattan district attorney's office, which is now prosecuting a Greenwich Village retailer for selling "obscene" buttons. The offenders ranged from "Pornography Is Fun" to pornography unprintable. But for Civil Liberties Un ion Lawyer Robert Polstein, banning buttons is restricting of expression. "What young people see clean," he argues, "older persons see dirty...
...land of his Hindu grandfather, is determined not to avert his eyes from such sights, which tourists and the Indians themselves ignore or miss. He observes "the ceremonial washing of the genitals in public before prayers." He ponders four sweepers whose ritual effort only makes a hotel staircase dirtier than before "They are not required to clean. That is a subsidiary part of their function, which is to be sweepers, degraded beings." In Gorakhpur his critical gaze falls on the bazaar: "The sweetshops are required to have glass cases; the cases accordingly stand, quite empty, next to the heaps...