Word: woolsey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bowdlerized Ulysses would be unimaginable. The book, which first came to prominence in the '20s as one of those shocking things published in Paris, grew into a legend, even for people who never read it, when its U.S. publication was sanctioned in 1933 by Judge John M. Woolsey's celebrated decision: "Whilst in many places the effect is emetic, nowhere does it tend to be an aphrodisiac." The judgment has become the consensus. Though the script omits none of the common obscenities and few of the scabrous episodes that made the book notorious, it had no trouble getting...
...four-letter words and some swinging sex scenes, and had been barred from the U.S. After talking with Joyce, Cerf brought back a copy, which was promptly seized at customs. With Attorney Morris Ernst, Cerf took the Ulysses case to court. The now famous decision by Judge John M. Woolsey not only gave Cerf-and Joyce -an impressive victory, but it landed a staggering blow against censorship...
...BRAD WOOLSEY...
Surviving are his widow, the former Helen Woolsey, and two other children, Heathcote W. and Jane M. Wales...
Cross Campus, and the bells in Harkness Tower pealed traditional Yale tunes (sample: Down the Field). Parading back to cavernous Woolsey Hall, Brewster received the ancient symbols of presidential office: the 1701 manuscript of the original Yale Charter, the school seal of 1722, and the brass keys to the university. Windup of the weekend was a grand ball at the turtle-shaped Ingalls hockey rink, where guests, faculty and the presidential couple sipped punch and danced the night away as two bands played music to be inaugurated...