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Avatar, Boston's iconoclastic underground newsppaer, is back in court. A month ago the eleventh issue of Avatar was declared obscene in Boston Municipal Court. Because Cambridge and Boston newsstands refused to sell Avatar, even before the obscenity decision, Avatar had to sell its twelfth and thirteenth issues--deliberate parodies of "obscenity"--primarily through street vendors. Boston and Cambridge authorities responded to the hippy news-boys with harrassment, arrests and, one day last week, a flying raid on Avatar's Boston office...
...cause," namely he says, "because they were selling obscene literature." Whether the permit had expired or had been revoked, it appeared that Avatar no longer possessed a permit. The editors applied for a series of new permits. Their request was refused. When the street vendors tried to sell the thirteenth issue, several of them were arrested...
...Merchant of Venice. With the extreame crueltie of Shylock the Iewe towards the sayd Merchant. . . ." The fact is that Shakespeare, and Elizabethan Londoners generally, could have had little if any first-hand knowledge of Jews, since Jews had been banished from England at the end of the thirteenth century and were not readmitted until the middle of the seventeenth...
STRATFORD, Conn.--The Midsummer Night's Dream with which the American Shakespeare Festival has opened its thirteenth season is hardly a dream of a production. But then it is also far from being a midsummer nightmare--just a middlingly pleasant couple of hours...
...thirteenth year of the reign of Nathan and in the third of the reign of Kingman a slew of winged seraphim spitting hellfire descended unto Jonathan, son of Henry, and he was sore afraid. "Lo," said one of the seraphim as with twain he did cover his eyes, and with twain he did cover his ears and with twain he did cover his mouth, making of consequence his "Lo" wondrously muffled...