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...immoral" import. In upholding the ban, U.S. District Judge Henry N. Graven ruled that 491 met all the Supreme Court tests of obscenity. "To the average person applying contemporary community (national) standards," held Graven, the film's "dominant theme as a whole appeals to the prurient interest." In addition, he said, "it is utterly without redeeming social importance...
...million) and eight associates were convicted on 147 counts of violating anti-obscenity laws by deluging Iowa with six smutty paperbacks and 14 nudist magazines. Although 250 obscenity cases are now pending in California, even the state's best bookstores still blatantly display "nudie" magazines, while others peddle prurient paperbacks, ranging from Carnal Code to Passion Puppet...
Obviously sign-out rules will do nothing except keep the College Council, the alumnae, and every girl's mother happy. As long as Radcliffe can claim it has some kind of curfew rules--and not talk about their substance--no newspaper with prurient tastes is going to snoop around and find out just how permissive those rules are. Radcliffe's reputation for decorum, at least, will remain intact...
...Middle-aged people with prurient interests--mostly men" are the most avid buyers, according to the salesman at the Mandrake Book Store...
M.I.T. is very secretive about its prurient interest. The entire campus, at least on the side away from the river, is based on deception. Going up Mass. Ave. all you can see on your left is a gigantic building in Chicago Roman, looking like something left over from the 1893 Columbian Exposition. But this is a front. Behind the building are acres of sleek, naked towers in Brasilia modern, cleverly obscured from the street, and dirty movies...