Word: exits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...during a recent shopping tour, for example, he embarrassed the salesgirls with lengthy inquiries about contraceptives, adding bluntly that "homemade ones are easily damaged." Exile is another; Sukarno's youngest wife Dewi is in Tokyo awaiting the birth of a child next month, and Sukarno might make an exit on the grounds of paternal duty. If he does leave Indonesia, the odds are against his returning...
Heinrich BÖll's Enter and Exit, a story of the first and last days of World War II, is technically no more demanding than a run-of-the-mill yarn in the old Saturday Evening Post, but the reader follows BÖll's hero willingly. Although the psychology is unsubtle and the theme not far from trite, BÖll deals in reality...
Black appealed to London Magistrate Leo Gradwell, whose Marlborough Street court has jurisdiction over the Soho restaurant district and the offices of Exit's British publishers, Calder & Boyars. Black charged the publishers with violating the 1959 Obscene Publications Act by having "obscene articles in their possession for publication for gain." For his part, the magistrate cooperated by issuing a search warrant. The police seized three copies from the publishers and the prosecution was on -with no jury trial...
Incriminating Tendency. As usual, assorted defense experts denied obscenity; indeed, Novelist Anthony Burgess declared that Exit "might make sexual activity of any kind repugnant." Publisher Marion Boyars called Exit "a sad book, a true book" and "too American" to sell. As for gain, she said, her firm had sold 11,247 copies and netted only $3,315.20. Appearing for the prosecution, Dr. Ernest Caxton, an authority on homosexuality, called the book an "extremely dangerous" guide to homosexual experimentation. Book Publisher (Pergamon Press) Robert Maxwell, a Labor M.P., blasted it as "sociological material with filth and muck just added for profit...
Firmly ruling that Exit "has a tendency to deprave and corrupt," Magistrate Gradwell ordered his three copies destroyed and in effect banned all future sales-a decision that actually applies only to his own Soho district. Despite that limitation, said one alarmed British publisher, Gradwell's precedent invites "any crank to start proceedings against a book he does not like. All you need is a friendly magistrate." As a result, the publishers are now practically begging the government to prosecute-with a jury. Their hope is obviously to give the book nationwide legal approval. Watchdog Black...