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...s. Whitman’s hero, Abraham Lincoln, read and enjoyed an early version of Leaves of Grass. Despite such high recommendations, Whitman faced charges of obscenity and immorality for his work, but this only led to increased popularity of the book. Whitman continually revised and republished Leaves of Grass throughout his lifetime, notably adding the “Drum-Taps” section after L...

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...within cease to exist and all memories of this place will be wiped from both history and the minds of those who live in my era.” “Pardon my use of obscenity,” Howard said breathlessly. “But what the heck?” Cilantro frowned.  “The only things that are known of Winnemac and it's people's are found in the writings of Sinclair Lewis that the people of my time see as work...

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...erved, in the absence of a gasping public – my exposure is not indecent. So what is it? An obscenity? Damage to public property? A corruption of th...

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...ked, and not as qualities they would like to realize. They are presented with obscenity within them as if on a screen before their eyes, but at the ...

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...ture in a seminar titled "The Psychology of Torture" (1989): "Torture is an obscenity in that it joins what is most private with what is most public... ...to merge, without the security of the other's benign intentions.) A further obscenity of torture is the inversion it makes of intimate human relatio...

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...ple. It stated that ‗whether or not the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immo... ...prurient interest." (65)) But the U.S. Supreme Court decisions on 270 obscenity are generally 5 to 4 or 6 to 3 decisions with some judges holding... ...are generally 5 to 4 or 6 to 3 decisions with some judges holding that all obscenity is protected by the First Amendment. ―But so far in the ... ...Nixon‘s watch, the nominal Quaker launched the Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography. It concluded that ‗there was insufficient evide... ... year was spent on hard core pornography. ―In the United States, obscenity and pornography is generally regulated by state law. In 1973 the... ...cks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. If a state obscenity law is thus limited. Once the jury or judge has decided the case... ...dity alone does not render material obscene.(121) The state cannot define obscenity(122) because it is a factual question that has to be determined ...

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...on will be enacted which will deal with permitted and disallowed content (obscenity ? incitement ? racial or gender bias ?) No medium in the USA (no... ...ariety of monopoly and libel laws (and, later, under national security and obscenity laws). There was little or no difference between royal and "demo... ...on will be enacted which will deal with permitted and disallowed content (obscenity? incitement? racial or gender bias?) No medium in the USA (not... ...ion may be enacted which will deal with permitted and disallowed content (obscenity? incitement? racial or gender bias?). No medium in the USA (or e...

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...tion is only as good as the context you put it into. Science has created that obscenity of thinking that since there is no other God than Science. ... .... To try to make you understand the insanity and stupidity of this Scientific obscenity. Preaching that the survival of all organisms is based upon... ...Since nearly all big biotech corporations are American- owned. The latest obscenity concerning genetically altered foods is governments trying to... ...o is poor? No. The supposedly noble concept of romantic love… the cultural obscenity of exclusive love is so deeply imprinted into all consumer s... ... the lie of supply and demand in Capitalistic economies: is a sick, pathetic, obscenity. The flow of wealth does not follow any rule of supply and ... ...innocuous. Even the use of the word ‘camp’ in this context is a brainwashing obscenity. Camping is supposed to be fun! Only privileged, lucky Chi... ...hman’. They have spewed the word: ‘Verdammt’ for centuries as a curse, as an obscenity, and finally as a cultural colloquialism. They invented the ... ...horror. The true origin of the Protestant middle class in Europe is a hidden obscenity. The Protestants damned themselves for many good reasons. ... ... cultures. They are sick, dying cultures that are slowly dying out… but the obscenity of civilization is that civilization will not let these dying...

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... of a singular theory. He had gazed at the varmints and their apotheosized obscenity, vile and natural, until its completion, far longer than other me...

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... all the men she was with.' He was meaning love making in its full-animated obscenity of interlinked private parts and hedonism, the fundamentals of ...

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... Legislation may be enacted which will deal with permitted and disallowed content (obscenity? incitement? racial or gender bias?). No medium in th...

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... Legislation may be enacted which will deal with permitted and disallowed content (obscenity? incitement? racial or gender bias?). No medium in th...

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...ovoking Crimes, Nor fear a Dearth in these Flagitious Times. No Pardon vile Obscenity should find, Tho’ Wit and Art conspire to move your Mind; But... ...hould find, Tho’ Wit and Art conspire to move your Mind; But Dulness with Obscenity must prove As Shameful sure as Importance in Love. In the fat...

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... the ill- natured remarks made on your appearance.” “Those who admire such obscenity will not have to bear the burthen if we sin,” said the lady tartl...

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...a dearth in these flagitious times. 530 No pardon vile obscenity should find, Though wit and art conspire to move your mind; But d... ...ould find, Though wit and art conspire to move your mind; But dulness with obscenity must prove As shameful sure as impotence in love. In the fat age ...

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...e one hand he’s had religious mania, and on the other, he is fascinated by obscenity. Either he is a pure servant, washing the feet of Christ, or else... ... the will like that,’ cried Birkin harshly, ‘disgusting. Such a will is an obscenity.’ Hermione looked at him for a long time, with her shad- owed, he... ...matically she stiffened herself away, and disapproved. It seemed almost an obscenity, in a man who talked as a rule so very seriously. ‘Why not like t... ...n the distance the empty, invisible rooms sent forth a vibration almost of obscenity. They almost fled with the last articles, into the out-of-door. B...

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...of uncleanliness and corruption and death, it is the Moloch, worshipped in obscenity. Which is unbearable. The phallus is a symbol of creative divinit...

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...geoisie. Matifat, a passionate lover of the stage, had a slight leaning to obscenity. It was even said that, in imitation of Cadot and the rich Camuso...

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...ime, not a cubic inch of any pestilen tial gas in which he lives, not one obscenity or degradation about him, not an ignorance, not a wickedness, not...

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...he fussiness of an old woman potting plants. It kept him from fac- ing the obscenity of fate. The attendant said, “Naw, you can’t see any of the pris-...

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...ift, tumultous life, its truth, its nobility and savagery, its heroism and obscenity had revolted her. “But, Presley,” she had murmured, “that is not ...

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...naive ob- scenity—c’est la vie, mon cher, c’est la vie, he cried—the naive obscenity served only to emphasise the conventionality of the anecdote. He ...

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...ime, not a cubic inch of any pestilen tial gas in which he lives, not one obscenity or degradation about him, not an ignorance, not a wickedness, not...

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...508 The Epistle of St. Paul to the Ephesians you, as becometh saints: 4 Or obscenity, or foolish talking, or scurril- ity, which is to no purpose; but...

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...thing to check the epidemic of foul language, gross suggestion, and raving obscenity of word and thought that broke out. The writers abandoned all sel...

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...d the whole body of law. Blasphemy, indecency, libel, trea- son, sedition, obscenity, profanity, and all the other evils which a censorship is suppose... ...me- times so vague, as for example in the case of the American law against obscenity, that it makes the magistrate virtually a censor. But in the main... ...England and America for the purpose of enforcing the existing laws against obscenity, blasphemy, Sabbath-breaking, the debauchery of children, prostit...

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...ss, a sacred gift long dethroned by the hellish laugh- ter of derision and obscenity, rises like a flood miraculously out of the fetid dust and mud of...

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...is Latin and dissimulation were alike; and that his custom of swearing and obscenity in speaking made him seem a worse Christian than he was, and a be...

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...act lead to the drawing of knives and pistols, and sex discussion leads to obscenity, it has no application to children except as an imperative rea- s...

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...ective by acts of legal perse- cution under cover of repressing blasphemy, obscenity, and sedition; but no government now openly forbids its subjects ...

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... control himself, and that a touch might drive him to the utmost limits of obscenity, but only to obscenity, to nothing criminal, nothing for which he...

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... his glittering rapier upon the County Council for suppressing some vulgar obscenity in the music-halls, or tickles the ribs of a Vigilance Associatio... ...w- ing now. It should be more clearly recognized in our pros- ecutions for obscenity, for example, that the gravity of the offence is entirely depende...

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... piece, written I know not by whom, but a piece passionate to the point of obscenity. “‘How could I have gone away?’ said I to myself, as I recalled t...

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... control himself, and that a touch might drive him to the utmost limits of obscenity, but only to obscenity, to nothing criminal, nothing for which he...

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...h authority without it.’ Johnson. ‘No, Sir; I have done more good as I am. Obscenity and Impiety have always been repressed in my com- pany.’ Boswell....

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...passages in the school classics, but beyond a general sense of secrecy and obscenity in connection with his internal structure, had left his imagina- ...

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...passages in the school classics, but beyond a general sense of secrecy and obscenity in connection with his internal structure, had left his imaginati...