House Races to Watch; Palin Backs Ducey in Ariz.; “Ulysses” Unbound
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 8th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
House Races to Watch; Palin Backs Ducey in Ariz.; “Ulysses” Unbound
Carl M. Cannon, RealClearPolitics
Good morning. It’s Thursday, August 7, 2014, the 80th anniversary of a seminal event for anyone who values literature — or cherishes free expression. On this day in 1934, by a 2-1 margin, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that James Joyce’s “Ulysses” was not smut. First published in Paris in 1922, the novel was almost immediately considered by critics and leading literary lights to be a masterpiece. The big question, at least in Great Britain and the United States, was whether some of its passages were so risqué that it rendered the book obscene, legally…
