... of three thousand copies, sent from England, reached the U.S. Customs office in San Francisco, five hundred copies were seized by a Customs official. This official indignantly declared that "the words and the sense of the writing is obscene", and, "you wouldn't want your children to come across it" ( Tytell 1976). That was the exact ... He once ruled over a group of women found guilty of shoplifting and ordered them to watch a film about the Ten Commandments and to answer, in essay form, various questions having to do with the holy text (George-Warren 1999). Niether the prosecution nor t...

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