Word: tastee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That any judge would feel himself or any random assembly of writers equipped to define "offensive material" or "redeeming social value" seems fantastically presumptuous. Any form of literary criticism is by definition subjective, and a judge's particular taste is, at best; a shaky basis for a legal decision.
To legislate taste is an impossibility and the courts could better expend their efforts in other fields. The ban should be reserved for cases in which it can be clearly demonstrated that a book is provoking action harmful to the society. Few such cases would probably ever arise, and even...
Julia's success as a showman has been to turn her contretemps into triumphs. When the prop men forgot to take the butter out of the refrigerator, she covered by saying: "I'm rather glad this happened because I can tell you what to do if you'...
What spoils this picture of constant improvement is the sneaking suspicion that the improvement is not always real-in other words, the old bogy of planned obsolescence. Advertising, so goes the argument, not only exaggerates the improvements in many products but also relentlessly creates demands that never existed before. Obviously...
Little Old Lady. Much of the increase is due to the droll cards the company calls "Hi Brows," which, along with other studio-type cards, now account for 11% of its business. Other cards are designed for the customer President Irving Stone describes as "that sweet little old lady who...