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...attraction was not entirely based on his segregationist views. He vowed that his election would end the twelve-year rule of the Faubus machine. He called Lyndon Johnson, who is none too popular in Arkansas, a "socialist" and a "parasite." He also, on occasion, made Washington sound like Sodom and Gomorrah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arkansas: A Different Kind of Johnson | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

...sounded like a trip from Sodom to Gomorrah. Before he sailed from the U.S., Evangelist Billy Graham, 47, had ticked off quite a list of sinners inhabiting his native land: "The beatnik, the rebellious youth, the price-rigging executive, the draft-card burner, the pregnant high school girl, the dope addict, the bribed athlete" and a host of others. Behold, things didn't look any purer to Billy when he arrived in London to begin a month-long crusade. "To read the papers and magazines, you would think that we were almost worshiping the female bosom," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 3, 1966 | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

Animal Butchery. Jean Genet, France's existential sensualist, joined forces with Director Tony Richardson and Actress Jeanne Moreau, a festival favorite, to produce Mademoiselle, a story of Sodom in the suburbs. It should have been a festival favorite too; instead it got soundly, roundly booed, possibly because Moreau overworks her villainy. The film is rife with animal butchery and exotic sexuality. Sniffed one critic: "Maybe we didn't know that licking the nose of a gentleman in the moonlight constituted eroticism . . . but did we really have to know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Festivals: Fine Art & Flapdoodle | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

...same time a sexual dyspeptic; too much was not enough. His pleasure was pain, and pain was his pleasure. Jail confined him to the not inconsiderable pleasures of his imagination, and over 20 years he wrote his blue masterpieces, The Bedroom Philosophers, The 120 Days of Sodom, Justine, and Juliette, in which he gave literary form if not, as he hoped, philosophic status to his aberrations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Wicked Mister Six | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

When New York Customs men put the arm on twelve questionable books mailed from France (sample titles: Sodom, Lust, Busy Bodies') and kept them impounded for five months, the importer, one Mel Friedman, decided to fight back. "Having concluded that the Government suppressed the books for an unlawfully protracted time" without initiating any legal proceeding, said Frankel, it was only proper that they be released-"even though we go on the assumption that the books are indeed obscene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Decisions: Patently Wrong | 2/18/1966 | See Source »

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