This was very meaningful to me
From Gary on Long Island, came the link to this op-ed piece in yesterday's New York Times, a sort of pre-Happy Birthday gift pour moi!
TODAY is the 50th anniversary of the court
ruling that overturned America’s obscenity laws, setting off an
explosion of free speech — and also, in retrospect, splashing cold
water on the idea, much discussed during Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme
Court confirmation hearings, that judges are “umpires” rather than
agents of social change.
The historic case began on May 15, 1959, when Barney Rosset, the publisher of Grove Press, sued the Post Office for confiscating copies of the uncensored version of D. H. Lawrence’s 1928 novel “Lady Chatterley’s Lover,” which had long been banned for its graphic sex scenes...
Read the complete article here and thank Barnie Rosset for his labors that enable me to have the career I have today, folks.
The Day Obscenity Became Art
The historic case began on May 15, 1959, when Barney Rosset, the publisher of Grove Press, sued the Post Office for confiscating copies of the uncensored version of D. H. Lawrence’s 1928 novel “Lady Chatterley’s Lover,” which had long been banned for its graphic sex scenes...
Read the complete article here and thank Barnie Rosset for his labors that enable me to have the career I have today, folks.
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