Word: tropicalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Obscenity density, as a jurisprudential principle of the Commonwealth, was porchulgated most recently, if imprecisely, in 1961 Tropic of Cancer case. Although that book had definitely offended the sensibilities of the Commissioners, the judge accepted the publisher's contention that Cancer contained passages of literary and historical interest. These mitigated the more erotic passages enough to leave the work still piquant, perhaps, but not obscene, indecent, and impure when read as a whole...
...Commission and other agencies of the Common-wealth have concentrated their efforts, time, and public funds on books like Fanny Hill and Tropic of Cancer. For example, it was only recently that the Boston Public Library was permitted to place even such a book as Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy on its shelves. As the New York Supreme Court said in that state's Fanny Hill case, a book ought not to be banned as long as it has "literary and historic merit." The Massachusetts Supreme Court, finally settling the Tropic of Cancer case, said that "anything with literary...
Tour article is the February 7 CRIMSON about the proceeding by the Attorney General against Fanny Hill reports me as having said that the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts is planning to intervene as the basis of the Tropic of Cancer case...
Goodman said that any defense of the book would be based on the last censorship case in Massachusetts, which involved Tropic of Cancer. In that case the state Supreme Court declared that "anything with literary attributes" could not be banned and that it is "not the function of judges to serve as arbiters of taste...
Sandra has other ideas. She goes off to college and sings folk songs in "a place where everybody has a beard except one or two of the girls." Father rushes to the rescue, gets caught in a culture riot inspired by Tropic of Cancer, winds up with his name on the front page (LAWYER BATTLES COPS FOR DIRTY BOOKS) and his daughter kicked out of school. Sandra then shoots off to Paris to study painting, and gets a portrait of herself reprinted in LIFE-a portrait with five cubistic breasts. Father rushes to the rescue, steps innocently into a maison...