Word: excerpt
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Just what is obscenity? The old test, said Brennan, allowed "material to be judged merely by the effect of an isolated excerpt upon particularly susceptible persons." That standard was rejected, and the Supreme Court instead approved this test: "Whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interests." Justice Brennan quoted with approval a lower court's charge to the jury: "You and you alone are the exclusive judges of what the common conscience of the community...
Your readers may be interested in the following excerpt from the minutes of the April meeting of the University's active Committee on the Defense Studies Program...
...stare of a bored little girl caught up in a group of gesticulating farmers, flickered over the strained, sweat-lined faces of steelworkers stoking their furnaces, and watched while a painfully earnest schoolgirl in a Warsaw classroom rattled off a quaintly colorful description of the U.S. Revolutionary War. Excerpt: "So the farmers rose up. At the head of the fighters stood a farmer, George Washington. And the distinguished Thomas Jefferson was there too. The great Polish fighters, Kosciusko and Pulaski, also took part in the fight. In 1776 the uprisers were victorious. The Congress of the U.S. adopted the Constitution...
...songs for their alma mater. Musicomedy Librettist Alan Jay (My Fair Lady) Lerner ('40) and Master-of-Most-Musical-Trades Leonard Bernstein ('39) had cooked up a lugubrious ("Harvard! Harvard! Onward go . . .") Dedication and a satirical, possibly soulful, ditty titled The Lonely Men of Harvard. Excerpt from the latter...
...Sullivan Show (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). Renata Tebaldi and Richard Tucker sing an excerpt from La Bohème, but only a snippet because Ed & Co. think good mu sic is scaring away audience...