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...good pun and a useful one in a century overburdened with Bonapartes. Like a swarm of corpulent drones they rose from the thickets of Corsica and fell with a sodden thump on the sinecures of empire. Noisy, ugly, greedy, provincial, quarrelsome, ostentatious, lewd and downright criminal, they terrorized Europe off and on from 1801 to 1870 and frightened Napoleon himself almost as much as the Grand Alliance did. All through his reign they ridiculed, insulted and cheated him, and when he needed them most a number of them cynically betrayed him to his enemies. Of all modern dynasties, the Bonapartes...
Government Lawyer Paul Bender, on the other hand, pointed to unanimous lower court decisions that "these publications are obscene, filthy, vile, lewd and lascivious." Justice William O. Douglas asked Bender about a Baptist minister who had testified earlier that he used the Handbook in "counseling." The lower court, said Bender, "either found he was lying-or that he wasn't a typical minister." When pressed further, though, Bender conceded that while Liaison is "a collection of dirty jokes," Ginzburg's other works are "borderline material." In short, he was saying that the Justices must read them...
...Lewd did I live & evil I did dwel...
...exhibitionism. Most recently, the San Francisco police raided two North Beach nightclubs, the Condor and the Off-Broadway, and dragged both proprietors into court. The Off-Broadway, which offers topless waitresses along with such name performers as Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Kenton and Trini Lopez, was accused of operating "a lewd and obscene exhibition" and of "conduct outraging public decency...
...that the girls had been made to incriminate themselves, since nobody had told them they could refuse to have their pictures taken in the nonattire they were not wearing when they were arrested. Municipal Judge Leo Friedman concurred, further ruled that bare bosoms, in and of themselves, are neither lewd, lascivious nor obscene, and advised the jury to return a verdict of not guilty. The jury complied...