Word: referring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which a publication is advertised does not affect its content. The other tests for obscenity, that the work appeals to "prurient interests," that it is "patently offensive," and that it is "without redeeming social value," all refer directly to the substance of the material. But the advertising criterion is a tacit admission by the Court that it cannot draw a clear distinction between a work that is obscene and one that is not on the strength of the material itself. If a book is not "patently offensive," how can the way in which it is publicized make...
Still, however lifeless and ersatz the songs on this album may be, enough of them refer to the subject material of other war ballads (prostitution in Saigon, inter-service rivalry in Garet Trooper, and military discipline in Bemibe) to indicate that in some radically different original form a few of them might indeed have been crooned in a shot-up rice paddy on the Mekong Delta. If so, it is interesting to note that, aside from a few murky references to Freedom and Those Oppressed, the lyrics are entirely apolitical, and unconcerned with whom we are fighting or why. Sadler...
...University in Ohio, also holds master's degrees in history (University of Pennsylvania) and library science (Western Reserve). Draz came to Time Inc. after a 61-year stint at the Library of Congress, where he headed the Reader Service Section of the Manuscript Division and later the Public Refer ence Section of the General Refer ence and Bibliography Division...
...your major subject is not listed in the index, refer to the sections describing the areas of the world in which you wish to work...
...your penetrating Essay, "The Sorry State of Divorce Law" [Feb. 11], you refer to the conciliation court as a possible hope for the future and cite Los Angeles' as an example of what can be accomplished. We submit that marriage and divorce are not the province of the law and the courts. Domestic breakup is an emotional tragedy that should be handled by family centers, where concentration would be upon the causes of marital discord rather than the symptoms, and where the jungle atmosphere that pervades the court and the lawyer's office would be eliminated completely...