Word: filth
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...exercising variously"-but afraid to compete. He despises uniformity but craves membership in the Club. He rebels against mediocrity but tells himself he is "too mediocre to think of beauty." His blood boils with desire, "very strong desire that knocks about everything, zigzagging, starved, steeped in pride and filth," but he follows his impulses only in dreams. In the end, says Quinte, "one finds oneself with all those others, those terrible others, who resemble each other and whom I resemble, and who also resemble infinite tatters...
...what the hell, we wouldn't have cared about the squeaky horns, cracking tenors, dump jokes, flickering spotlights, missed cues. We wouldn't have minded when an actor got stuck in the safety-pinned curtain, or when another knocked over a teapot. Oh for goodness sake-even a little filth would have helped...
...constitutional guarantees to vilely depict perversions and sexual adventures as John Cleland saw fit 200 years ago. This is not the way to a better constitutional world; it is rather the path to decay and decline. The Constitution should not be the sword of the shameful profiteer of filth. It must be the shield to protect our sense of moral decency." Next testing station: the New Jersey Supreme Court, which will have to read Fanny all over...
...Calendar, (a moribund collage of ads for itself, and a rather fair approximation of the "Complete Listings" featuring a good sprinkling of those inevitable Endocrinology Colloquiums); and the Advocate (replete with unintelligible, but vaguely suggestive, woodcuts, some poems of the same order, and a short story entitled "Filth"). As if all this were not enough, the Lampoon once again treats Cambridge to her perennial Merino, still shaggy, still standing there...
...finding that the Constitution was intended as a guarantee for the dissemination of filth, and a device to deprive the public of the right to protect itself against vile and corrupt publications, the 'under God' foundations of the United States were implied to be irrelevant...