Word: lewd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Professional Mothers, Citizens Committees, government officials and other keepers of the Public Morality will surreptitiously sneak off to some dark corner to read the book and emerge officially outraged. They will declare Candy is obscene, lewd and unfit for civilized eyes...
...61st. The first one-man show by a young New Yorker who takes his titles from James Joyce, puns with lines much as the Irish writer did with words. His major painting is the Temptation of St. Anthony; the poor saint looks absolutely abashed by the frantics of the lewd nudes who surround him in a sea of fleshy tones, raw red mouths and undulating shapes. Twenty-seven oils. Through April...
...loves. One was "Napoleon Bonaparte, who called her "my matchless little mother" and made her his Empress; the other was Paul Barras, revolutionist and member of the Directory, who remarked that "she would have drunk gold out of the skull of her lover" and referred to her as "the lewd Creole." Barras' estimate of Josephine was the one accepted by most 19th century biographers of Napoleon -chiefly, suggests Historian Ernest Knapton, because she left behind so few words in her own defense (only one "certain and authentic" letter from Josephine to Napoleon survives). Knapton's sympathetic, scrupulously detailed...
First published in England in about 1749, the book figured in the earliest recorded suppression of a literary work on grounds of obscenity. In 1821 in Commonwealth vs. Holmes, the Massachusetts court indicted two men for publishing this "lewd and obscene" work. There have been innumerable bans ever since...
...there was a fight--Knight against himself, Knight fighting to forget a great part of his past. And the fight continued: Ordinarily, once subdued, Knight would have "Tommed" to the cops. That is, he would have suppressed all pride, all hate, all honesty, presented only the laughing, awkward, servile, lewd surface that they wanted to see, and so maybe got an occasional pack of cigarettes and a soft job on the work gangs. That was the game: Fight in vengeance, fight to escape, but if caught, make the best...