Word: luridness
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...tangled tale of Streetcar were hard put to follow the plot line, but found it gripping and disturbing nevertheless. Beaten Blanche Du Bois, danced by Slavenska, quickly revealed the incipient madness which, in the play, had a slower buildup. Thereafter, the dance action veered between Blanche's lurid inner life and the real life of a New Orleans slum: Blanche's wistful meeting with a potential suitor, a boisterous crap game, the taut marriage of her sister and brother-in-law (danced by Lois Ellyn and Franklin). Dramatic climax: a hair-raising chase through a series of shuttered...
...Corrupting" comic books, lurid magazines, and inexpensive reprints of more costly editions today fall beneath the censorial hand, a hand that has so far restrained itself, but that could assume the viciousness of a mailed fist. It is an "unseen censorship" working behind the scenes and, in Boston as in other cities, making its way unimpeded...
...Obscenity" versus "Art" was an easy battle to fight until a tremendous volume of cheap popular literature complicated the issue, and the nation's publishers began evading their own moral responsibilities--book by book, magazine by magazine, lurid photo by lurid photo...
...less than three years of its existence, the Committee has advised that over 250 pocket books, comic books, and lurid magazines be withdrawn from the shelves, or at least withheld from persons under 18 years of ago. At first, members concentrated chiefly on pocket editions--the 25 cent variety. Lately, however, it has moved into the sphere of the comic books and has banned such magazines as "Wink" and "Whisper...
There is but one group of students, in fact, a minority if they exist at all, who have no complaint coming. These are the undergraduates whose activity evokes what University Hall fears most--gross immorality, lurid beadlines, and the demise or desecration of the Good Name. The latest ordinance need not worry these people, for it is only the privilege itself, and not its extent, that concerns them...