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Leibowitz' advice on tactics so impressed Calvert Magruder, chief judge of the U.S. Circuit, Court of Appeals for the first circuit, who was presiding at the meeting, that he said, "If I were ever on trial for murder or rape, I would try to get Leibowitz as my attorney...
Wrote Geoffrey Gorer, British anthropologist and journalist, in the Georgia Review: "They are haunted by fear of rape; but though this is mostly envisaged in the crudest physical shape, it is probably a second spiritual violation which they dread even more. Terrified of being overwhelmed by violence, they use violence and the threat of violence to avert this disaster...
They also inveighed against nicenellyisms. For example, the Medill stylists urged: "Do not use the words 'criminal assault' as a euphemism for the word 'rape.' " But most newsmen may find it hard to drop this traditional euphemism or its twin "statutory offense." Once the Houston Post tried to. The copy went to the composing room, with a sentence that told how a woman ran down the street screaming "He's trying to rape me! Help!" The Post's prim proofreaders, to whom a rule was a rule, split an infinitive as the lesser...
...overcome his cowardice; Flem Snopes, who would not hesitate to stamp on every living creature to satisfy his greed; and the famous Popeye, a ghastly symbol of machine-age amorality, with the "vicious depthless quality of stamped tin." Against this background, the violent elements in Faulkner's novels-rape, castration, lynching, bestiality-are symbols of moral confusion and social decay...
...successfully defended Errol Flynn on a charge of statutory rape and Charlie Chaplin on a Mann Act charge...