Word: smuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 a right to sell obscene material. Second, the court held that the Constitution does guarantee freedom for ideas "having even the slightest redeeming social importance-unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful...
...fink. Perhaps I'm just ridiculously sensitive." He believes that "comic-strip artists have a responsibility to be uplifting and decent. This is not difficult. My book, Happiness Is a Warm Puppy, is completely innocent; yet in 1963 it outsold every other book, despite the waves of smut sweeping the country...
Where Love Has Gone. "Somewhere along the line the world has lost all its standards and all its taste," snaps Bette Davis. But don't let her dictum fool you. Miss Davis is merely throwing in the opening ball for a few innings of big league smut scraped together from the bestselling novel by Harold Robbins (The Carpetbaggers...
...nineteenth century, tired of children, is gone They've all gone into a world of light; the farm's my own . . . Grandpa! Have me, hold me, cherish me! Tears smut my fingers...
...court's current obscenity doctrine rests on a 1957 decision (Roth-Alberts) which upheld the conviction of two mail-order smut peddlers. At that time, the court explained that obscenity was material that was "utterly without redeeming social importance." The Roth test is "whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest," and whether, in addition, the material "goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor...