Word: vandenhaag
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Levy, director of Oh! Calcutta!, America Hurrah and Scuba Duba; Charles Rembar, the attorney who successfully defended Lady Chatterley's Lover, Fanny Hill and Tropic of Cancer against obscenity charges; Terry Southern, author of Candy; Kenneth Tynan, British author, critic and organizer of Oh! Calcutta!; and Dr. Ernest Vandenhaag, New York University psychoanalyst and professor of social philosophy. On these pages are samplings of the conversations...
...Vandenhaag: Mr. Tynan's idea is apparently that pornography can be good, depending, of course, on the quality of who creates it. Now as I think of art, it is not the experience itself, but a reflection upon experience. As Santayana put it, high art cancels lust. My view would be this: the better the writer, the less effective his writing as "pornography" as you defined it, however sexual his subject...
...Vandenhaag: Intent is what you do know. Effect is what you do not know. You can't expect the artist to know about the effects...
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