Word: freer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overestimating the power of print as a seducer. The easy availability of pornography is indeed alarming, but its suppression raises more difficult problems. The wisest men have been unable to draw a sure line between what is harmful and what is merely realistic or daring in literature. Moreover, freer access at least allows the reading public to discover just how dull pornography really is, while suppression tends to make it even more titillating. Victorian England, for example, seems to have been as sexually depraved as any era in history-and its pornography flourished underground. Lady Snow is refreshing and courageous...
...Angeles' unauthorized Insight is edited by Barry Tavlin, 17, who quit his regular school paper because he felt it was too often censored. Inviting contributions from students throughout the city, Insight objects to adult complaints about teen-age tendencies toward freer sex, claims that grown-ups are the ones "who patronize topless restaurants" and "publish and read the sadistic sex magazines." When adults contend that sexy movies might "corrupt the minds of our youth," they imply "either that the adults have corrupt minds already or that it's O.K. to corrupt them...
...responsible for the show's one-note blocking. Virtually every scene has a group of actors who stand stage left, another stage right, and occasional contact between the two stage center. Only in the third act, outside the tenement, is this left-right structure alternated with a freer, and visually much more pleasing (not to mention convincing) movement...
...normally does with papers he has acquired, Newhouse is leaving the present management, namely Vail, in control. "I have a freer hand than before," says Vail, who believes that Newhouse-unlike the bankers-will give him backing in his plans for further expansion...
...will also propose that Yale establish a new branch of the college which would offer freer education--"something like the Harvard Freshman Seminars, only for fur years," he said...