Word: disgusting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...terms of the relevant statutes, Henry Miller's book is not obscene. A mind incapable of understanding the book, a mind that thinks of legs as "limbs" and bulls as "he-cows" might come to such an odd conclusion. Such a mind would simply react with shock or disgust to the vigorous language of the book...
...Shock or disgust, however, is not the issue. Any legal test for obscenity hinges on whether the matter appeals to prurient interest--whether the total effect of the book would be to arouse sexual desire in the average reader (In the Roth decision, Justice Brennan explicitly stated that "the portrayal of sex ... is not itself sufficient reason" to declare a book obscene...
...Nasser's defenders, are necessary to keep the socialist reforms from being wrecked by the rich, the lazy, the discontented. Certainly, compared to the Egypt of Novelist Lawrence (The Alexandria Quartet) Durrell, who described "a human misery of such proportions that one's human feelings overflowed into disgust and terror," Nasser's Egypt is a vastly improved place. Largely gone from the cities are the droves of diseased beggars. In the countryside a few hundred thousand fellahin are farming their own land for the first time since the Pharaohs. Cairo's luxury hotels, once playgrounds...
...invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech may be taken away, and, dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter." In fact, Washington was exhorting his ragged men not to mutiny against the Government in disgust because they had not been paid...
...mostly white student body and the faculty of the University of Texas turned against their regents last week in a sharp demand for full integration of the South's biggest campus. In an atmosphere charged with resentment, rebellion and disgust, Chancellor Harry Ransom and President Joseph Smiley found themselves paralyzed by the need to accommodate the segregationist regents and unable to drop racial bars at a campus that plainly wanted them dropped...