Word: lewd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grundy career became legend, all the more quixotic because his two brothers, Painter Jacques Villon and Sculptor Duchamp-Villon, went on to make careers in art that placed them near the top of their generation. By comparison, Marcel Duchamp seemed like a naughty boy who ties enigmatic, impudent, possibly lewd messages to balloons, then lets them fly off into the blue yonder. But now, 42 years after he abandoned art, his messages have come down to earth. Far from being gibberish, the scribblings now seem cryptic formulas for the future...
...think about banning books. This subject of Massachusetts' most recent attack also figured in what is believed to be the first recorded suppression of literature on grounds of obscenity in the United States, Commonwealth v. Holmes, an 1821 case in which two Massachusetts men were indicted "for publishing a lewd and obsecene print, contained in a certain book entitled Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, and also for publishing the said book...
Putnam's Sons, had asked Judge Pashman to enjoin the county prosecutor from blocking sale of the book in New Jersey under a law that bars distribution of "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or indecent" material. The usual parade of witnesses-psychiatrists as well as literary critics-argued that Fanny Hill contained not a single four-letter word. But Judge Pashman was not impressed...
Granger explained that the police had no way of holding the two men. "The girls didn't stop to talk to them, so the guys didn't get a chance to say anything lewd or do anything obscene...
...seaman dallying in an inn with five tarts, and the dialogue is suitably arch: "Oh, come a little closer to me!" "I say, I say, it seems you've had too much and can't stand up!" Japanese casualness about sex convinced Perry that they were "a lewd people." When the shogun's commissioners complained that a U.S. naval officer had left some religious books in one of the temples, Perry responded by protesting against "the obscene books which the Japanese had given the sailors." But after a desperate effort on both sides to understand each other...