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While the newspapers continued to refer euphemistically to V.D. as a "rare blood disease," and the U.S. Post Office banned the pamphlet What Every Girl Should Know because of its explicit references to gonorrhea, physicians became more vocal in supporting sex education and moralistic in abhorring the vices, "bred in the pestilential hot house atmosphere of dark, dirty, ill-ventilated homes, which induce ... abnormal cravings...
Much of the Commission's activities involved social hygiene instruction and literature about the male sexual image. A typical pamphlet offered...
...prostitutes during World War I demonstrates the underlying theme of hostility against women in the crusade against venereal disease. Brandt points out that from the start women were either viewed as weak helpless victims or the very source of temptation and disease. Negative propaganda against women entered almost every pamphlet' and poster condemning the disease. Perhaps the most blatant is a World War II poster portraying venereal disease as a sexy woman arm in arm with Nazi soldiers thus declaring her the worst...
...other winners are NASA's appropriately high-tech logo and graphic system; a coordinated National Park Service pamphlet design; the Historic Preservation Tax Incentives Program; the GSA program for placing artworks in public buildings; the Charles River flood control, navigation improvement and pollution abatement; a public housing project in Charleston, S.C.; and an urban redevelopment program in St. Paul...
...also quick to pounce, often humorously, when he sniffed out dishonest intentions or botched executions. He acknowledges one novelist's gradations of ineptitude: "She began several years ago with writing unmitigated nonsense, and she now writes nonsense very sensibly mitigated." He praises with faint damns a pamphlet composed by the painter James McNeill Whistler, who "writes in an offhand, colloquial style, much besprinkled with French--a style which might be called familiar if one often encountered anything like it." Holding at arm's length a novel by Louisa May Alcott (Eight Cousins: or, the Aunt-Hill), he mentions the opinion...