Word: lewd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...buzzing about as a best seller in the literary world since its publication last year. A great many people suspected that the document was not entirely authentic; but, on the other hand, a great many wiseacres, particularly in England, welcomed it as a spirited contemporary portrait of our delightfully lewd ancestors. It is now time for all those who suspected a take to be gently proud of their perspicuity and for those who were taken in to admire the delicacy and completeness of the art that could deceive them...
...just as England had welcomed the barbarous Whitman, so the U. S. welcomed the "wicked, lewd, scandalous and obscene" Ellis. His six sturdy Studies in the Psychology of Sex have been published in Philadelphia (F. A. Davis & Co.) for the benefit of the legal and medical professions, since 1900. They are technical books by an artist who acquired his technique because he conceived sex to be, not the sole, but the central factor of life. They are the scientific basis for his doctrine of "radiant carnality" In later work (The World of Dreams) Ellis anticipated the Freudian discovery that spiritual...
...author who shocks the sense of public decency differs little from a lewd and lascivious person, a common night walker, both male and female," Mr. Chase continued. This system of enforcing the law against the purveyors of indecent literature is the American System of Censorship. It is censorship by the people who are represented by the average citizens on our new juries...
Among the noses without the glass door of the courtroom, "Sex Viri" was whispered often and with lewd import. To the prurient not even a Latin numeral is pure. The "Six Men" of Cambridge were wronged. Meanwhile the five judges at London decided that the "Sex Viri" had wronged Dr. Haldane. They sustained his appeal and rendered a verdict which is expected to create the legal precedent that the private life of a university man shall be considered as of no relation to his scholastic position...
...Manhattan, a judge cried: "It is not only obviously and unquestionably obscene, lewd and lascivious, but it is filthy, disgusting and revolting. I am averse to enhancing its sale...