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MOTOREDE, The Movement to Restore Decency, "to expose the immoral sex education programs in the schools, and to halt the mushrooming use of narcotics, the steady increase in drunkenness, the pervasive spread of pornography, the growing exhibitionism of filth in mind, body, clothes, and language, and the discarding of all morality in every sound sense of values...
Joyce's first reply to his wife's response, that August 31st letter, is a key that unlocks one of the most lyrical moments of filth in the canon of Dirty Parts. It is a strange moment for Joyce, an attempt to become closer to Nora through a type of innocent lechery: There is a place I would like to kiss you now, a strange place, Nora. Not on the lips, Nora. Do you know where? The letters continue in this vein, rising sometimes to quite literal climaxes; and Joyce intended this masturbatory spontaneous writing for himself and his wife...
Libidinous Filth. Out of their locker-room context, where hidden anxieties and hostilities trip the giggle reflex, the jokes are not at all funny. Even to Legman they are shocking. "The book is full of material so disgusting that it will make any decent, clean, healthy person want to throw up," he declares. Why then did he spend 41 years collecting and writing the text that accompanies these Augean sweepings of the human psyche? Legman tells us that he began his harvest as a teen-ager in Scranton, Pa., where he was born in 1918. "I got myself...
...ultimately, their humanity. They are killer institutions. An investigation still under way in New York has dug out evidence of widespread abuse and exploitation of nursing-home patients. Inspectors who have made surprise visits to homes have found in the worst of them incontinent patients wallowing in their own filth, patients shot full of tranquilizers to keep them bovinely docile, others whose requests for help went unanswered and still others who were unfed or given the wrong foods and medication. They have also found many patients-like those at the now closed Towers Nursing Home in New York City...
...have been "accidental" victims of the forced march to the countryside. What seems certain is that Cambodia's period of zealous self-imposed isolation will continue. Radio Phnom-Penh reported last week that the nation's new leaders were busy campaigning to "clear the country of the filth and garbage left behind by the war of aggression." Though it also spoke of rebuilding the country's industry, the broadcast left little doubt that the government's chief aim would be to restore farm production so that Cambodia might be "completely independent of all foreigners." Meanwhile...