Word: lewd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outrageous at times, but always he was outraged, and his searing anger burns through to this day. He learned to draw -or so he liked to say-in the officers' club his widowed mother ran for an aristocratic Prussian regiment in Pomerania. There "decrepit old men" would outline lewd pictures with soap on the mirror over the bar, and the boy would copy them in secret. Hardly noticed by them, he closely observed his mother's arrogant, stiff-backed, high-collared customers, whom he delighted in imitating all the rest of his life. "It was an absolutely feudal...
...child and the stream must go to those who use them best. Mr. Hancock's cutting of everything dealing with the collective farm is silly politically and dramatically, for the last three lines of the play, "And the valley to the waterers, that it bring forth fruit," becomes poetically lewd in a way Brecht wouldn't have appreciated...
...LEWD BOOKS TO CHILDREN...
...doesn't run the sizzling sexpots. When the U.T. was abuilding 30 years ago, its owners had to promise Harvard not to show anything that might give the kiddies lewd ideas. He also avoids the teen-age monster rubbish because it attracts too many little rough-rocks...