Word: personal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discussions or teaching and advocacy in the realm of ideas you must acquit them . . . Do not be led astray by talk about thought control, or putting books on trial. No such issues are before you here. "But no one could suppose nor is it the law that any person has an absolute and unbridled right to say or to write and to publish whatever he chooses under any and all circumstances...
Added Justice DiGiovanna: "Public interest in a free and democratic society does not warrant or encourage the suppression of any book at the whim of any unduly sensitive person or group of persons, merely because a character described in such book as belonging to a particular race or religion is portrayed in a derogatory or offensive manner...
Alabaster & Antipathy. Never married, he was always in love. When he first met the tiny, cigar-smoking and betrousered George Sand sulking at a soiree, he exclaimed, "What an antipathetic person ... Is it really a woman? I am inclined to doubt it." He claimed she was his mistress for less than a year, but he lived with her and depended on her care and solicitude for almost the rest of his life. When her children finally forced them apart, he was lost without...
...list itself. This grouping of organizations was set up without adequate public hearings; inclusion of organizations is left up to the Attorney General. At the present time, it includes a number of groups to which a person can belong and be perfectly innocent of "subversive" activities. The list can be expanded at will; there is nothing to prevent it from some day including organizations like the Catholic War Veterans or the American Legion...
...mayor, being both a wise and thrifty person, set about selling his trained moose. After considerable dealings with various prospective purchasers, he sold the animal to a small travelling circus where, it is reported, it was used to run sprint trials (on a straight course) against another member of the circus case, a large trained ostrich. It is further reported that the moose could beat the ostrich nine times...