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John M. Bullitt '43, professor of English, said yesterday that he has agreed to defend John Cleland's eighteenth-century novel on the basis of its "historical interest...
Massachusetts Attorney General Edward W. Brooke this week began legal proceedings to ban John Cleland's eighteenth-century novel Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill) in the state. A petition presented before Judge Eugene A. Hudson of Suffolk County Superior Court asks that he declare the book "obscene, indecent, and impure," and therefore illegal under Commonwealth statutes...
...John M. Bullitt, professor of English, said last night. Bullitt, whose course, English 141, studies the period in which Fanny Hill was published, explained that the novel is historically important as an extreme example of the "anti-Pamela" tradition in English literature. Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded is an eighteenth-century defense of chastity...
...Walks in Splendor" is an exhibit of luxurious costumes created by famous couturiers over the last five centuries. The collection starts in the 1500's with Queen Elizabeth's waistcoat, then skips to an excellent eighteenth century array...
...eight mannequins are unique; each was constructed to fill her costume, and the silhouettes represented range from the shapelessness of the nineteen-twenties to the eighteenth-century hourglass. The mannequins wear contemporary accessories and are grouped against period scenery, such as Louisburg Square in the 1880's or a French interior...