Word: schoolgirlisms
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...schoolgirl test began to crumble in 1933 with the famed ruling by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, which held that James Joyce's Ulysses was not obscene -despite its impudent pudendicity and ovablastic genitories -since the "proper test" is a book's "dominant effect." In 1957, in decisions that upheld the conviction of two mail-order pornography dealers, the U.S. Supreme Court finally defined its own views on the matter. First, it flatly denied the smut peddlers' contention that the 1st and 14th Amendments guaranteeing freedom of speech and press gave them...
...laughter of genius to another." Until the 1930s, U.S. courts generally followed a celebrated 1868 ruling of Britain's Lord Chief Justice Sir Alexander Cockburn, whose test for obscenity-used more or less interchangeably with pornography-was the effect any material might have on a hypothetical schoolgirl, or its tendency to "deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences." This ruling, which bedeviled and outraged the literary world for some 65 years, ignored the overall literary or educational merit of a book for the adult reader...
...likes to drive fast cars ("The M.G. is a fine auto, and besides, it has the right initials"), bedevil teammates with practical jokes, and regale strangers with her schoolgirl knowledge of geography. "What state are you from?" she once demanded of an American passerby on the street in France. "New Jersey," he replied. "Ah," intoned Marielle. "The capital of New Jersey is Trenton." She breaks training for an occasional cigarette or a glass of wine, and already is making plans for a round-the-world trip when she "retires" -after the 1968 Olympics. "I want to make way for youth...
...white soldiers found 14 hostages -eleven Italian nuns and three British missionary women -still alive. But eight Dutch priests and six Britons had been shot. Among the dead was an Eng lish schoolgirl, Heather Arton, 16. who had joined her missionary parents last August during her holiday. She caught the fancy of a Simba captain, who for weeks brutalized her before an audience of his feathered fellow tribesmen. In the end, when the Simbas marched off her parents with the others, the captain offered to spare her. But she tore loose and joined the death march...
...greets it with the disdain he might ordinarily show for a stale canape. Nevertheless, Australian Navy Commander Trevor Howard tricks him into a position as a plane spotter (code designation: Mother Goose) on a remote islet near New Guinea. Soon he has to rescue Caron and her seven giggling schoolgirl charges, who have fled the French consulate school at Rabaul...