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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...
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...