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...innovation. Last year a new division was added to the four basic programs of instruction. It will offer interdisciplinary studies, such as social thought or philosophy of science for undergraduates, and will emphasize tutorial and independent studies instead of course-work. The Master of the new division, James Redfield, for several years fulfilled his offer to teach Greek to all comers. The student body of 2,500, taught by its own faculty numbering 350, maintains an incredibly high faculty-student ratio of one to eight...
...unavoidable in the second case, in which Edward Mishkin appealed a three-year New York sentence for publishing 140 weird -little books (Sex Switch, Raw Dames, etc.) devoted to sadism and masochism-typically spiced by scenes of naked girls whipping one another. Mishkin's New York lawyer, Emanuel Redfield, confronted the Supreme Court with a new headache: "Only obscene books can be proscribed. Are sadism and masochism synonyms for obscenity? If so, there is no end to the literature that may be prohibited...
Moreover, Redfield argued that the books cannot be tested according to the Roth decision as appealing to the "average person's" prurient interest. "They appeal to the elderly, the impotent and the perverse. Must one be judged by what offends others?" Indeed, can books that actually bore the average person be adjudged obscene because they rouse the prurient interest of what Justice Abe Fortas delicately called "special groups...
...their $50 gambling stamps, brought Costello along on a vagrancy charge, being, as the law says, "without visible means of support." Fortunately, his attorney explained that he was "retired," and even the New York Civil Liberties Union came to his defense. "An outrage!" barked its counsel, Emanuel Redfield. "An action of a police state, not a democracy...
Clement Fowler and William Redfield made me understand for the first time how Hamlet can without any concern order Rosencrantz and Guildenstern killed. They are ingratiating, flattering, effeminate, but vicious; when Hamlet kills Polonius and leaves himself exposed, they turn on him almost snarling as they order him before the king...