Word: soho
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tilting with Bobbies. By English standards, Hulme was a hick. He came from a Staffordshire farm family, though his father relished playing the Victorian county squire. Hulme affected to despise the Establishment though he adopted its manner. Once, when a policeman objected to his making water in a Soho Square gutter, Hulme haughtily asked: "Do you know you are addressing a member of the middle classes?" The bobby apologized...
When Wyndham Lewis' girl friend left him to become Hulme's fiancée, Lewis tracked his rival down and grabbed Hulme by the throat. Hulme picked Lewis up bodily, marched out to Soho Square and hung Lewis upside down on an iron railing by his trouser cuffs. In a graphic, impromptu way, the episode symbolized what one neo-orthodox nonconformist had done to his generation...
...Lady Godiva had cantered through Soho last week, she would have been too late. A stripper on horseback has already been signed to work London's "Naughty Mile." The district heaves with a surfeit of female flesh. After years of popularity abroad, the English nude has at last come into her own at home...
...keeping an absorbed eye on the clubs, earnestly looking for violations of the law. But as the law works now, managers need only register their clubs with a clerk who has no authority to refuse them the right to operate. Aware of a lot of outcry at Soho's seamy skin mills, Home Secretary R. A. Butler has proposed a new licensing bill that may put the strippers out of business. Meanwhile, the clubs go on grossing nearly $6,000,000 a year. The bare market has never been so bullish...
...flesh and blood, but mainly flesh, world of Soho provides a background of night life and street life, strippers and whores (it's pre-Wolfenden and Street Offenses Act). Harvey's treatment of his common-law wife, Sylvia Syms, an ecydysiast who wants to be a singer, heightens the immediacy of the theme of survival of the fittest...