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...only were the tests difficult to devise; they have proved almost impossible to apply. The court has yet to find a single piece of writing obscene-largely because even the worst smut seems able to meet the test of social importance simply because it seems like literature to some readers, however socially unimportant they may be. And to compound the confusion, in Jacobellis v. Ohio (1964), the court spelled out what it meant by "community" standards. Because the Constitution is involved, the community is the whole country; the standard must be "national"-as defined by the Supreme Court...
This latest morsel from the previously published-only-in-Paris works of Olympia Press will disappoint smut lovers everywhere. It is at best a poor scraping from the bottom of the Candy barrel. Mamie Mason, Harlem hostess with the mostest, sets out to solve the Race Problem in her own forthright fashion by aiding and abetting two-tone cohabitation as widely and as often as possible among her vast collage of acquaintances. As a single, running, off-color joke, the novel turns out to be neither very funny nor very dirty. The level of its humor is set by Negro...
...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...