Word: elements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evidence, he is acting not as a court of law but as a censor. I decline that role." Holding that the burden of proof in obscenity cases was still fully upon the prosecutor, Judge Greene dismissed all charges because "the prosecutor failed in these cases to prove a vital element of the offenses...
...well encourage lower courts to penalize "matter produced solely for the personal enjoyment of the creator." Construing Ginzburg, the court stressed: "No constitutionally punishable conduct appears in the case of an individual who prepares material for his own use" or who "intends to purge the material of any objectionable element before distributing or exhibiting it." To hold otherwise, the court said, "would pose grave technical difficulty for the unconventional artist" and "tend to suppress experimental productions that might become, in finished form, constitutionally protected communication...
...still the sea-the element he came to know so familiarly that he could refer to it with the authority of a King Canute as "that duck pond." Because of such mastery, his art sings chanties that help men endure and enjoy what they cannot control themselves...
...naturalness is never naivete. When he says of a successful play, "It's all luck" he says it as one who knows the ins and outs of the New York theatre world, the hard work as well as the element of chance. He admires entertainers tremendously. "My mother liked theatrical people and they were always around the house -- not the big names, of course, but they had it in their blood. I remember in particular one family in Flatbush -- one was a showgirl. A showgirl considers herself much above a chorine, you know. There's a world of difference...
...feel out of my element," said another who was used to the old Radcliffe Library on Garden Street...