Word: longford
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years old before, as far as I can remember, the word pornography ever crossed my lips in public." But after seeing the London production of Oh! Calcutta!, the seventh Earl of Longford rose in the House of Lords last year to deliver an anti-obscenity speech so stirring that it stirred the Earl himself to action. Last week an unofficial, privately financed 52-man committee chosen and headed by Longford, completed 16 months of investigation by publishing a 520-page report on pornography. Unlike the President's commission in the U.S., Lord Longford's study found that pornography...
Such conclusions would perhaps not be surprising from a group organized by a former leader of the House of Lords, a Roman Catholic convert and one of 24 knights companions of the Order of the Garter (motto: "Evil to him who evil thinks"). But Lord Longford is also a longtime socialist who helped design the British welfare state, a self-styled "fellow-traveling member of Women's Lib" and the first member of the House of Lords to speak in favor of legalizing private adult homosexual acts. Longford and the bishops, social scientists, housewives, educators, pop stars and writers...
...William Hamilton, husband of Lord Nelson's celebrated mistress, Emma, bought it from a Neapolitan collection. In 1801 it was sold at Christies' for 39 guineas, and ten years later, the second Earl of Radnor bought it. It stayed sequestered in the Radnor family seat, Longford Castle, until recently -when the eighth Earl sent it back to Christies' to help pay duties on his father's estate...
...Wellington, Longford...