Word: prurients
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...controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion." The court defined obscenity as material "utterly without redeeming social importance," and set up as its test "whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest...
...dead heat. Had Aubrey lost his magic? He had once made a purseful of profits from sows' ears such as The Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction. But this year ABC had doped out Aubrey's own patterns and produced hits like the gimmicky Bewitched and the slyly prurient Peyton Place. Moreover, the outlook for next year was not good. Big CBS sponsors, such as Lever Bros., General Foods and Bristol-Meyers, took hunks of their business elsewhere...
John E. Collins, headmaster of the Newman Preparatory School, was the sole witness for the Attorney General's office. He testified that Fanny arouses "prurient interest" in a reader and that it is "hard core pornography." When Rombar queried him on his understanding of the meaning of prurient," Collins replied that "dirty," "sexual," and "esoteric" would all be acceptable definitions...
...Prurient Interest--Since "its subject matter is dealt with in daily newspapers" and there is not in the book a single objectionable word," this test does not disqualify it either, says Putnam...
...Whether to the average person, ap plying contemporary community stand ards, the dominant theme taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest...