Word: evergreen
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...most celebrated obscenity matter now before the court-two cases involving the Swedish film, I Am Curious (Yellow). Though he gave no reason, the film is distributed by Grove Press which recently paid Douglas $200 tor the right to print excerpts from his controversial book, Points of Rebellion, in Evergreen magazine...
...himself become vulnerable to political enemies who keep trying to push him from his precarious position as a doggedly liberal jurist in a country where there is decreasing respect both for the judiciary and the law. One result of this essay, parts of which appeared in "Evergreen Review." is that a special subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee is investigating possible grounds for impeaching Justice Douglas...
Douglas has issued the State a grave warning, and it is almost comical to see how "public voices" are responding. One of House Minority Leader Gerald Ford's major arguments against the essay is that excerpts from it appeared in "Evergreen Review." Ford termed the magazine "full of hardcore pornography," and thought it outrageous that a Supreme Court Justice should allow his name to appear in such a journal. James Reston devoted one of his thrice-weekly columns to an attack against Points of Rebellion, calling it "a misdemeanor." To underscore which side of the political spectrum Reston is leaning...
...Study of Democratic Institutions. He also expressed outrage at the most recent of Douglas' 30 books, Points of Rebellion, saying that it gave "legitimacy to the militant hippie-yippie movement." Ford observed that he was infuriated chiefly because excerpts of the book appeared in the current issue of Evergreen magazine. They were preceded by photographs of nudes that Ford called "hardcore pornography," and took pains to show to his ogling colleagues during his speech...
...Several evenings will be devoted to drama symposiums, led by playwrights and their critics. Arthur Copit-whose recent play, Indians, jarred audiences into confronting the vast discrepancy between the myth and reality of America's treatment of the Indian-will debate with Evergreen and Village Voice critic John Lahr. Lahr's recent biography, Notes On A Cowardly Lion, has made a camp hero of his father, Bert Lahr, and helped to cause the enormously-popular revival of Alice In Wonderland, to the delight of Bert Lahr fans everywhere. Kopit wrote and produced Oh Dad Poor Dad while still at Harvard...