Word: shapiro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comedy, but the situation has been worked out as elegantly as a chess problem: opening gam bit, queen's sacrifice, knight rooked, mate. The same game, more or less, was played in Pillow Talk, an amusing and lucrative farce turned out in 1959 by the same scriptwriter, Stanley Shapiro, a onetime gag writer for Fred Allen who is now one of the sharpest word boys in the movie business. But this time the interiors are even more giltily decorative, the fashions more spectacularly inconsequintial, the colors more hormone-creamy, the lines more jerky-smirky ("A kiss is like lighting...
Under the direction of moderator David John, teaching fellow in English, the panel then considered the psychologically influences of Cancer. Leon N. Shapiro '46, instructor in psychiatry, claimed that the book is "not at all sexually stimulating because its detailed descriptions of the sex act leave nothing to the imagination...
...Shapiro, who noted that he has dealt with many cases of sexual perverseness, said that in his experience he has found that "pornography actually helps to control the actions of sexually disturbed people." He concluded, "Better pornography might drive cheaper brands from the market...
...Leon N. Shapiro '46, instructor in psychiatry at the Medical School, will offer his views on the psychological effects and possible incitements that result from such (allegedly) obscene works as Miller's. (Shapiro, a witness for the defense in the Massachusetts trial, could not testify because the court held that he would not be "applying contemporary community standards" but merely expressing personal opinions...
Bloomfield and Haney both testified for the defense in the Massachusetts trial; with Shapiro, they should provide considerable support for Miller and his book...