Word: unclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made punishable under English common law; not until 1 957 did the U.S. Supreme Court hold that it was not covered by the First Amendment guarantees of free speech and press. But even in that decision (Roth v. U.S.), which upheld a federal obscenity statute, the court was clearly unclear about the "dim and uncertain" line between obscenity and protected expression. Painfully, the court decreed three tests...
...such touches as a Hammacher-Schlemmer electric cannibal pot in which Sally is cooked, offstage, although she is eaten onstage. "I think I went too far here," Kopit explained, "not just in showing cooked portions of Sally, but in the play's whole conception. The play's intent is unclear, and could easily be interpreted as anti-Negro, though I certainly never intended...
...alcoholics under treatment, and so far has found similar results. In New York, Dr. J. Martin Semer, who is making a parallel study, reports with enthusiasm: "This is the first indication that a chemical can do anything more than make a patient sick when he drinks." Metronidazole, for still unclear reasons, mounts a two-pronged attack, working on both the mind and the body. Like Antabuse, it can leave a drinker violently nauseated, but before that happens it cuts down on alcohol desire and helps to make a sober life more palatable...
...PORNOGRAPHY. Is Fanny Hill obscene? No, said New York's highest state court. Yes, said comparable courts in Illinois, New Jersey and Massachusetts. All of them used the Supreme Court's clearly unclear guidelines, such as whether pornography has "redeeming social interest." Now the learned Justices must curl up with Fanny Hill and subjectively decide for themselves-a chore that the American Civil Liberties Union urges them to give up entirely by declaring that all published material is protected by the First Amendment unless it creates a "clear and present danger" of antisocial conduct. The A.C.L.U. makes...
...mechanized, computerized world, opera offers escape into a realm of heroism-which is another way of saying individualism. Perhaps they come because, in the words of Langdon Van Norden, president of the Metropolitan Opera Guild, "they are madmen! Madmen all!" But the dividing line between madness and love is unclear, and they come, above all, because they love the musical form of poetry, the amalgam of arts, that is opera. By joining words and music, sight and sound, opera enables the audience, as Music Master Leonard Bernstein has put it, to "experience conflicting passions, contrasting moods and separate events...