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OTD in 1956, City Lights Books published "Howl and Other Poems" by Allen Ginsberg, which would culminate in a landmark obscenity trial in 1957.
>[Judge Clayton] Horn's ruling on 3 October [1957] was a demand that words used in literature should be contextualised, and judgement of a work's obscenity had to take into account the publication as a whole. It further asked: "Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid euphemism?"
u/Regular-Shallot441 — 14 days ago