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...Massachusetts trial which vindicated Naked Lunch will probably serve as a model for future obscenity trials. Primarily because a number of well known and respected writers testified to the literary value of Naked Lunch, it was not judged obscene. In defense of Burrough's novel, Norman Mailer testified that "We are richer for the record; and we are more impressive as a nation because a publisher can print that record and sell it in an open bookstore, sell it legally." Mailer went on to say that there should be no censorship. Allen Ginsberg also testified to the novel's poetic...
...January 14th issue of the CRIMSON (page 3) you reported erroneously a portion of the statement I made in Court in connection with Burrough's book, the Naked Lunch...
...printed in Crimson that "Burrough's description of a subculture 'can be achieved most easily and symbolically by the use of four letter words generally tabooed...
...Gargoyle, claiming "overwhelming public support for the castle's conversion," will present Vellucci with their George Burrough's Award, an annual distinction given in honor of the only Harvard alumnus over to be burned as a witch...
Since the church officially believes in angels, many reasoned, then why not devils? Said Canon Evan Burrough of Oxford: "I have a profound belief in angels and therefore in demons or evil spirits. I believe that the majority of patients in our mental hospitals are really possessed by demons rather than suffering diseases of the mind...