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Almost every message includes some remark derogatory to the Watch and Ward Society. "A splendid victory over the smut hounds," and "Congratulations on your escape from the clutches of the moral snouters," are examples...
...retention of censorship (TIME, Jan. 6). His threat to read aloud blush-provoking passages, if necessary, helped to pack the Senate galleries last week. After twelve hours' fervent debate the Senate did reverse its position, did reimpose a modified form of Customs censorship, but without a public smut-reading by Senator Smoot or anyone else. Instead of obscenities, the gallerites heard a long, sprawly, not altogether coherent debate on decency, morals and literature, foreign and domestic...
...book to which we are all indebted and from which none of us can escape." Said Critic-Author Virginia Woolf: "Ulysses was a memorable catastrophe-immense in daring, terrific in disaster." Said U. S. Critic Henry Louis Mencken to Author Francis Scott Fitzgerald: "Why, that book is full of smut!" Says Critic Henry Seidel Canby: "Joyce is a pioneer in the technique of the stream-of-consciousness novel, and very influential. His books, however, lack the control of a great artist." Says Editor Ellery Sedgwick (Atlantic Monthly)'. "In Ulysses Joyce made an original contribution to tragic literature, highly stimulating...
Smoot's Smut...
Permit a gentleman of the old school to congratulate you for calling public attention to Senator Blease's speech in the Senate on blasphemy. I wonder if you are going to have the courage to report Senator Smoot's threatened speech about "smut," if and when he makes it? Reformers we shall always have with us but I did hope I could live to see the day when naughty-minded old men would no longer be allowed to sit in the Senate. . . . To excuse themselves they attack the objects of their attention in the name of Righteousness. When...