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Humphed Alderman S. F. Johnson of Southend-on-Sea, determined to carry the campaign to Parliament: "We are not satisfied to pervert the morals of our own children. We want to pervert the minds and morals of all the nations of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Blatantly Easy | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...prowler, called a sex pervert by Cambridge police, was described by girls at six Acacia st. and at Founder's House, as young, dark-haired with a crew cut, slim about five feet ten inches tall, with trance-like, shifty eyes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mystery Man at Large | 12/4/1948 | See Source »

...Edith Summerskill, parliamentary secretary to the Ministry of Food, shrilled that the film was "likely to pervert the minds of the British people." The Bishop of London, as chairman of the Public Morality Council, sent a protest. Watch committees from the provinces hustled to London to pass judgment. Last week, after threat of banning, the picture was pruned a bit. Out went the kicking scene, also one where a gangster smashed a decanter across the face of an unoffending barkeep. However, the producers promised that, for export, No Orchids would remain unexpurgated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Why, John! | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...done with the opera-or by the time it is done with you -you have decided that Peter Grimes is the whole of bombing, machine-gunning, mining, torpedoing, ambushing humanity which talks about a guaranteed standard of living, yet does nothing but wreck its own works, degrade or pervert its own moral life and reduce itself to starvation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera's New Face | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...claim that sex should have emotional justification, and therefore they preach "multiple love" instead of "free love." They claim that jealousy and possessiveness are sins; that marriage is enslavement; that fidelity is a mistake but constancy a good thing. The great idol of the Sensorialists is that 18th Century pervert and jailbird, the Marquis de Sade. Leader LeGrand is writing five autobiographical novels, called Journal de Jacques, one of which has been published, and is readying a Sensorialist play for production next month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Pursuit of Wisdom | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

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