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...American people face moral and social breakdown. The standards that have guided us to greatness over the past two centuries are being systematically subverted by permissive courts and smut peddlers. In the name of freedom, we are being engulfed by filth. The Kick Society is a sick society...
Between the extreme partisans?those who hail the phenomenon as liberation and those who condemn it as decadence?there is room for some serious con cern about what it means in American life. In a sense, the creative arts and even their sleazy offshoots?blue movies, smut books, peepshows, prurient tabloids ?hold a public mirror to a society's private fantasies. A nation gets the kind of art and entertainment it wants and will pay for. Thus to many serious critics, and they are by no means all bluenoses or comstockians, the explosion of salacity in cinema, theater...
...areas, now show them in toto. So do a proliferation of homosexual magazines. So do a new wave of lecherous tabloids, with titles like The New York Review of Sex, whose erogenetic aim is mostly emetic in effect. Despite the blatant offensiveness of books, magazines and wall posters in smut-shop windows, local authorities are reluctant to take action for fear of prolonged and probably fruitless appeals through the courts...
Half Don't. By Hoppe's count, the nation is now waging 174 wars, including those against "pollution, smog, hunger, smut, poverty, the Vietnamese and middle-aged sag" - and is developing a defeatist attitude because it is losing them all. He claims that "the doves" have even taken over the war on poverty and this means that "Mr. Nixon has clearly given up any hope of winning...
Shouts of "source," "smut," and "time's up" filled the room as members of English N debated the resolution "Co-education with Radcliffe is a Pox on Harvard" in the course's eleventh heckling debate last night in Boylston Auditorium...