Word: prurient
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Miller, whose Paris-published novels Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn have stirred intelligentsiacs to as much prurient curiosity and as much sour criticastery as any novels since James Joyce's Ulysses, published an appeal for charity in the New Republic. He said he wanted contributions of old clothes ("love corduroys") and watercolor materials. In Beverly Glen, near Los Angeles, the 52-year-old, free-loving, free-sponging American-from-Paris had been destitute for months. Recently he had taken up painting...
...think TIME is completely detestable because it is vulgar, prurient, provincial, snobbish, middleclass, self-righteous, dictatorial and phony...
...facts alone it was a criminal case designed to echo throughout the U. S. press, to excite passions, race prejudice, prurient interest. But the paper that printed most about the trial-but without getting lurid-was the Greenwich (Conn.) Time (circulation: 3,265), the Strubings' local paper. Of New York papers only the Daily News and PM gave it conventional tabloid prominence. All other New York papers including the tabloid Mirror and Hearst's Journal & American played it down with brief reports slurring the details. One, the World-Telegram, in most of its reports even avoided mentioning...
...Pennsylvania in its birth was a planned society," Bates observes. To his mind Penn was a great political thinker, the Quaker Colony was democracy's brightest hope. While that prurient sadist and hypochondriac, Cotton Mather, was torturing old women for witchcraft in Massachusetts, Penn dismissed a charge of broomstick riding with the remark that there was no law in Pennsylvania against riding on broomsticks. Penn's incredibly dramatic-and in the end tragic-life has nowhere been better told...