Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before publication, a section of the book dealing with sexual depravity was printed by an obscure leftist monthly. Dolci was arrested, found guilty of publishing obscenities and sentenced to two months in jail. Leftists, intellectuals and even progressive businessmen such as Typewriter Tycoon Adriano Olivetti leaped to his defense; pro-Dolci committees were organized in ten major cities...
...Maids was written by Jean Genet, whose notoriety is far more abundant than his talent as a writer. He is reputed to be a man with a past full of most imaginative sexual contacts, and less imaginative jail sentences. As a playwright he draws on his acquaintance with the part of mankind most easily mistakable for rats, and adds a grotesque imagination to depressing subject matter. Occasionally, pure ugliness achieves dramatic effect via shock. Often it is simply ugly...
...France. Sea Dog Orsborne joined the Royal Navy at 14, fought in two world wars, in 1936 stole a 30-ton trawler, the Girl Pat, and with crew of three sailed 5,000 miles down the African coast and across the Atlantic, for his feat earned an 18-month jail sentence. Tracing Charles Darwin's 19th century world voyage in the Beagle, Orsborne in 1951 sailed the ketch Argosy from England, ended his trip abruptly in Trinidad when arrested for arms smuggling. His boast: "I did things no other man has done and stayed alive...
Poetic Justice. In Jersey City, Samuel Silverman, 22, in jail awaiting trial on a check forgery charge, casually scribbled a verse that police promptly confiscated as evidence...
Charles T. Lucey, a staff writer for the Scripps-Howard Alliance chain of newspapers, wrote a labor series for his paper several months ago in which he declared that labor is doing "the same kind of racketeering which sent Samuel Insull and Richard Whitney to jail...