Word: illicitness
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...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...
...plays tend to become an 'intellectual experience,' but there was such a clash between the architecture and the substance on the stage. It seemed kind of funny to me. Little old ladies at the intermission were saying how nice it was, totally white-faced. terrified. We were doing something illicit by doing those plays on the mainstage, so automatically we won friends before the plays were even seen. The body of work [of Morning, Noon, and Night ] represents something the kids can identify with more than whatever the hell they were doing at the Loeb for the past eight years...