Word: tropicalism
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Charles I. Rembar '35, counsel for Putnam's, based his defense of Fanny Hill on the contention that no work of art may be kept from the public as long as it has "social value." In Massachusetts' last major censorship case, involving Tropic of Cancer, the state's Supreme Judicial Court declared that "anything with literary attributes" or "redeeming social importance" cannot be banned...
...date for the formal trial will be set after Thursday's bearing, and it will probably be in late April or during reading period. Putnam's attorneys successfully defended Tropic of Cancer for Grove Press three years age. They will probably assert that Fanny Hill ought not to be judged by twentieth-century standards...
...little resistance, but the coup leaders made a stand at Baraka. Sending Mba off under guard to a village near Dr. Albert Schweitzer's hospital at Lambarene, the rebels prepared to meet the imminent French attack. It came next morning as French fighters stooped like falcons from the tropic sky, sent ball and tracer lashing into the army camp...
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...
...other hand, the Obscene Literature Control Commission may intend no benefit for community morality. To judge from all the facts of the Fanny Hill case and its immediate predecessor, Tropic of Cancer, the commission may be more concerned with the emaciated treasury of the Commonwealth. The voracious demand for both books immediately after the Commission announced its opinions has certainly not gone unnoticed at the nation's publishing houses. If these two threatened suppressions have been a test for a new revenue-raising scheme that might save Massachusetts yet from a higher income tax on the lottery, the test...