Word: explicitness
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George Nicholson, Dell's editor in chief of books for young readers, insists that despite the explicit, eye-catching themes in many of today's Y.A. titles, "we also have considerable respect for this audience. We want to have an uplifting, affirmative quality to books written for children." Adolescents cannot seem to get enough. To keep up with the demand, Dell is offering a $1,000 prize (plus $4,000 in advances) for the most outstanding first Y.A. novel...
...mind when I write. I try to get inside the mind and skin of a kid, and let the book find its own audience." One nine-year-old requested, "Please send me the facts of life in number order." Blume replied, "Ask your parents." She hates to see her explicit novel of first love, Forever, on the shelves next to books for younger children. The bittersweet romance, however, is the volume most requested by teens in the New York Public Library...
...that medical texts and even National Geographic might be denied constitutional protection would be misreading the decision. And the use of teen-age models in suggestive ads would probably not be affected since there is no display of actual or simulated sex. Books like Show Me!, however, which uses explicit photographs to teach children about sex, might prompt prosecutions. In any event, the court made its point unflinchingly: it is willing to risk excesses of prosecution in order to stamp out the excesses of pornographers who exploit children...
Catholic Archbishop John R. Roach of Minnesota at the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul: "It is essential that we initiate an explicit, public, systematic dialogue about the relationship of religious communities and the political process in the U.S. Whether we like it or not, a whole range of public policy issues are permeated at their very heart and core by moral or religious themes. From the debate on abortion to decisions about nuclear armaments, from care of the terminally ill to the fairness of budget cuts, the direction our society takes must include an assessment of how moral...
...fall of great personages from high places," the critic George Steiner has written, "gave to medieval politics their festive and brutal character. [Such cases] made explicit the universal drama of the fall of man." Watergate had both its grubbiness and its universality. It was a quagmire and a catharsis. It was a mystery story with splendidly bizarre obscurities of plot. It was a national psychodrama, a spectacle of immense power that the Senate committee hearings dramatized as a daytime soap. (Viewers actually called in to the television networks to suggest changes of script or pace, as though they were indeed...