Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...July 1, Denmark will become the first state in modern history to abolish every legal sanction against pornography for adults. That milestone became official last week when the Danish Folketing overwhelmingly approved the necessary legislation. In fact, by deliberately not enforcing the laws still on its books, the Danish government had already achieved that distinction for Denmark -and had become as well the first signatory ever to resign from the Geneva convention on obscene literature.* For the past several months, any Dane over 16 has been able to indulge his appetite for pornography to his limit-in books, films...
Export Trade. Most Danes seemingly agree-and accepted his legal proposal to abolish all restrictions. Now pornography is no longer an issue in Denmark: leaders of the Danish Lutheran Church have not bothered to take a stand on the Thestrup bill, newspapers do not dwell on it in detail, and a majority of parliamentary parties have given it their backing. Newsstands in tourist areas are still festooned with pictures of every pose imaginable. But this export market does not impress Denmark's most active pornographer, Leo Madsen, who publishes the mass-circulation Weekend Sex magazine. Says he ruefully: "Business...
...such, he is the senior representative of Her Majesty's law in 1,300,000 sq. mi. of frozen northland, all of it lying above the 60th latitude. There are only 32,000 people in that expanse, and local justices of the peace handle most of the legal problems. But since those accused of most crimes are entitled to be tried by a judge, Morrow rides the circuit by chartered plane and Skimobile...
President Pusey chooses the prize winners on the advice of his Council of Deans. Since it was started in 1955, the $1600 prize has gone both to scientists and to Faculty members in other fields. Recent winners include Austin W. Scott, Dane Professor of Law, emeritus, for the legal research; Fritz J. Roethlisberger, Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Human Relations, emeritus, for his historic investigations of human relations in industries; and Carroll M. Williams, Bussey Professor of Biology, for research on the juvenile hormone in insects