Word: fussed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Massachusetts has made some progress since the days when it banned Dreiser's An American Tragedy, but not much. This week, for example, Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer was banned with no fuss, no hysteria, no monkey-trial shenanigans. It was a reasonable hearing in which reasonable men argued their sides before a reasonable judge. Yet the decision revealed that this is still the commonwealth of the Yahoos, the Grundys and the Comstocks...
...concern themselves with threats to the Commonwealth's morals will breathe a sigh of relief. But by far the largest group of people--those who have not yet purchased their copy of Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer--won't even be able to find out what the fuss is all about...
...fuss began last April, when Walker was the commanding officer of the 24th Infantry Division in West Germany. Walker was accused by the Overseas Weekly, an independent, American-owned newspaper, of indoctrinating his troops with the far-right tenets of the John Birch Society. In addition, the paper charged that Walker had once publicly stated that former President Harry Truman was "definitely pink," and had pinned the leftist label on Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, former Secretary of State Dean Acheson and U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson...
Could God sometimes be on the side of the Communists? "I've been suggesting that possibility for years," John Bennett smiled to a friend last week. "But all of a sudden they kick up a fuss about it." One reason for the fuss is that the cold war is hotter than ever; another is that slight, smiling Congregationalist John Coleman Bennett, 59, is now dean of the faculty at Manhattan's prestigious Union Theological Seminary and one of the leaders of U.S. Protestant thought...
...edits the liberal religious biweekly Christianity and Crisis, supports U.N. recognition of Red China ("The isolating of China is the worst possible policy"). Bennett's teaching subject at Union is social ethics, and in the speech, made before a Roman Catholic group in Washington, that "kicked up a fuss" last week, he grappled with the ethical agonies of Atomic...