Word: prurient
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...liberties of its citizens must define the boundaries within which that liberty may be exercised. But hypocrisy and cant must not be allowed to dictate those boundaries. The field of human freedom must be kept as wide as possible, and the arbitrary definition of moral standards by insincere and prurient politicians is an infringement upon that field of free activity. On Friday the final decision will be made by the postal authorities, to readmit or bar the Dial parody. To disqualify the Advocate would be not less a slander upon its public and the University than a stigma upon...
...maximum of intellectual freedom. The undergraduate is well-poised: he will not be unbalanced by reading about a few doubtful subjects always in common talk. And openness of approach to written knowledge of esoteric subjects will go far to dissipate the halo of naughtiness which clings about the prurient taboo...
...into a wave of the purely artificial. Wasn't this inevitable after the muddy baths of realism and naturalism into which we were plunged of late? It is the crisp phrase, the daring image, the subtly concealed idea that demands our atten-tion?and Arlen, with none of the prurient phrases of Van Vechten nor the difficult nuances of Huxley, is like to become the Harold Bell Wright of the hypersophisticated...
...That prurient Hungarian scoundrel, Moritz Herman Foxter, who is managing director of the Oxford Pleating Company...
...hailed by the extremely advanced as another of the yearly crop of "great American novels." Since its publication in book form its reception has been uneven. It is an easy book to rave over and an even easier one at which to laugh. A few of the unintelligently prurient have been shocked by its plain speaking. F. P. A., of The New York World, was bored by it. So were Burton Rascoe, of The New York Tribune, and Edmund Wilson, Jr., of The Dial. Dr. Henry Seidel Canby,_ of The Literary Review, regards it as " a new Pilgrim...