Word: vile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Government Lawyer Paul Bender, on the other hand, pointed to unanimous lower court decisions that "these publications are obscene, filthy, vile, lewd and lascivious." Justice William O. Douglas asked Bender about a Baptist minister who had testified earlier that he used the Handbook in "counseling." The lower court, said Bender, "either found he was lying-or that he wasn't a typical minister." When pressed further, though, Bender conceded that while Liaison is "a collection of dirty jokes," Ginzburg's other works are "borderline material." In short, he was saying that the Justices must read them...
Through this frail plot, described as "a fairy tale for adults," Fellini parades a gallery of grotesques both sacred and profane: whores, prophets, shrouded nuns, epicene cultists, damned maidens ablaze, sundry vile bodies and Freudian symbols on horseback. All are flamboyantly colorful creations. And a few of the film's conceits are breathtaking to behold, from the gauzy blue-grey magic of a sequence in which Giulietta's grandfather succumbs to a lady bareback rider to her neighbor's improbable Eden - an art-nouveau fleshpot in rainbow hues where sinners can slide a chute from...
Samuel Johnson: Vile rubbish. Women in the eighteenth century had all the power. Madame de Stael practically made the French revolution...
...English. Subsequent editions appeared regularly until 1811 and one-the 1623 edition-became the model for definitive dictionaries in other European countries. The academicians tackled the job again in 1842, and plugged away for 81 years in their classical Dantean style, leading one critic to call the work "a vile, barbarous collection of excommunicated language." They were all the way up to the letter O when the more modern-minded Mussolini government ordered the project abandoned...
...Passed in the House, 360 to 21, and sent to the Senate a bill permitting recipients of offensive mail to halt further delivery. Under the measure, anyone could return to his postmaster mail which the recipient deemed "lascivious, indecent, filthy, or vile," and have the post office notify the sender to discontinue the mailings. Federal courts could enforce the request...