Word: smut
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American audiences in general and Mae West's audiences in particular have a unique and proverbial capacity for smut. As Mr. Krutch pointed out, this capacity is also shared by adolescents. Mr. Smoot of Utah probably knows more about pornographic literature than any living American, or European. However, in spite of this hearty endorsement, it cannot be repeated too often that this capacity and this knowledge is not a prime requisite for holiness. Hunger, not holiness, must be the explanation of this strange preoccupation with sex in its cruder forms...
...effect, the outline aims to make respectable, sanitary and uplifting the official "smut session" familiar to every preparatory school and college student. "One object of [the word] test," say its authors, ''is to draw off the emotional tension of the group-to get them talking and laughing freely over their own responses; to win one another's confidence and to gain confidence in the leader; to see how many absurd and unfounded opinions we hold. . . ." Words are given to the boys & girls, to be pondered for not more than five seconds, crossed out if disagreeable. Sample words...
Chaplin films there are touches of smut: Chaplin as a busy street cleaner seeing an endless troop of mules, hurrying in the opposite direction, only to meet an elephant; Chaplin acting girlish toward a prize fighter stripping for battle...
Miss Akins has managed to throw together three entirely unrelated acts-the first smut comedy, the second society drama, the third travesty. Sprinkled here and there is amusing dialogue. The three ladies are characters, their gentlemen friends are only inflated haberdashery...
...judge lightly the bookseller who occasionally sells a book which oversteps the legal line of obscenity. It condemns the professional who publishes a book simply because it stands on the border line of decency, and exploits every possible titillation of his product. But the companies which subterraneously produce smut and near-smut, as a regular business, stand on a very different footing from the reputable bookseller who incidentally procures for a client a copy of a book for which he asks. It was because of this evident difference that Assemblyman Langdon Post last year introduced into the New York State...