Word: prudishly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sort of unabashed nudity and uninhibited sexual discussion that is the staple of such successful magazines as Playboy and Penthouse? It may well have to be toned down. In any case, most states will probably have to redraft their laws, since existing statutes now tend to be so prudish that they do not actually define what they are forbidding...
...Older couples can marry without risking the danger of being shipped off to the funny farm by their prudish children...
CLARISSA HARLOWE embodies the bourgeois, prudish ideas of her family, and Lovelace is the monomanical assailant of the complacent power she wields by virtue of her chastity. Clarissa's latent and unlady-like fascination for Lovelace's sordid reputation damns any possibility of her innocence or heroism in Hardwick's eyes. She complies unconsciously in her own downfall. Hester Prynne, too, is merely a symbolic figure, and she persists marble-like, from the moment she leaves prison--"the place where radicals are made"--by becoming the epitome of the omnipotent New England matriarch, a self-reliant Puritan. Like Tess...
Things patch up and a two-year homosexual affair follows. Forster handles love scenes with exquisite tact, neither prudish nor extravagant, but by even the broadest of erotic standards, the novel is decidedly small-time stuff--gentle rather than sensual...
...vote principle and the Miranda ruling throwing out confessions from criminal suspects not advised of their right to counsel. An advocate of judicial restraint, he objected to intervention by federal courts in state obscenity cases unless the state action was "clearly the product of prudish over-zealousness." In a recent capital-punishment decision-the court's most emotional pending issue-Harlan argued that there was no constitutional obstacle to a jury both determining the guilt of a defendant and sentencing him to death. On many issues, Harlan thus was on the Government's law-and-order side...