Word: illicit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Plotke goes on to say that the presentation of the paper to the government "amounts to secrecy," and in order "to publicly disclose" this "semi secret paper" at the present time. "it was necessary to steal it." Mr. Plotke attempts to make something appear mysterious, secret. shady, and possibly illicit when it was in fact just the reverse. When I submitted the paper. AID did not stamp a security classification on it and hide it away in a safe. Instead, Copies were distributed to the seventy-five academic and governmental members of the SEADAG Council on Vietnamese Studies and Committee...
...addition, the officials as well as the committee members have generally placed emphasis on the importance of warning students that they were engaged in illicit actions...
Immoral and Illicit. More than a year ago, the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York ruled that the film could be imported into the country. Judge Henry Friendly admitted that "a truly pornographic film would not be rescued by inclusion of a few verses from the Psalms." But Friendly found "a connection between the serious purpose and the sexual episodes...
...ruse to give the movie social value." Phoenix Superior Court Judge Paul W. La Prade was even more critical. In his December decision banning the film, he insisted that it "has no plot, no economic message and no religious dogma. Its only message is immoral copulation, public fornication and illicit habits...
...apathetic sensibility and aesthetic neuralgia, and I had an inkling of what writers can do in this kind of a time. He made me feel how poetry can be immediate and alive, and he made me understand that what is most vital now is what is illicit, what is deemed anti-social and irresponsible and destructive by apologists for an outgrown sensibility, I learned about Pope and Dryden and rime royall, and I feel more for poetry because of it. But truly, Allen Ginsberg is more of a poet for us here, now, than W. H. Auden. We have more...