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The Smith College Porn Panic of 1960. (Essay).(college teachers convicted for viewing pornographic photos)
WHILE I HAVE always been a very private person, in early September of 1960, I was caught in the center of a moral hurricane. While vacationing on the Cape, I read in The New York Times that my colleagues, Newton Arvin and Ned Spofford, had been arrested for possessing "pornographic" photos. I soon heard on the radio that there was a warrant out for my arrest. Thus began the episode that culminated in my being tried and fired from my teaching job at Smith College.
On hearing that radio report as I began my third year at Smith, and fearing the worst, I immediately left for Cambridge, where a friend had already arranged for an excellent lawyer to meet me. William ...
- THE DISTRESSED LIFE OF NEWTON ARVIN.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)(Review)
- Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) May 4, 2001 700+ words
...THE SCARLET PROFESSOR - NEWTON ARVIN: A Literary Life Shattered...The Scarlet Professor - Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered...chronicle of literary critic Newton Arvin, a one-time lover...English professor at Smith College, he was allowed...
- It Happened in Northampton.(The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin, A Literary...
- Magazine article from: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide STONE, MARTHA E. September 1, 2001 700+ words
...Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin, A Literary Life...pages, $26. NEWTON Arvin's name is one...literature professor at Smith College in the...Northampton resident, Newton Arvin, who had once...giving up another Smith professor, the...
- The Scarlet Professor--Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by...
- Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) Bahr, David June 19, 2001 700+ words
...Scarlet Professor--Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered...The biographer's tale Newton Arvin was a leading literary...ultimately very human story of Newton Arvin, an award-winning...Forcibly "retired" from Smith College, where he taught...
- The Scarlet Professor, Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal....
- Biography Grain, Caleb September 22, 2001 700+ words
The Scarlet Professor, Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal. Barry Werth. New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2001. 325 pp. $26.00. Arvin...
- Cold War-Era 'Pink Scare' at Smith College Gives Rise to Forum Examining Civil...
- News wire article from: Ascribe Higher Education News Service December 17, 2002 700+ words
...raid on the apartment of Smith professor Newton Arvin, during which it confiscated...publicized scandal, Smith persuaded Arvin to retire...featuring the papers of Newton Arvin and other materials from the Sophia Smith Collection and the college...
- Music for Chameleons.(Review)
- Magazine article from: The Nation Leonard, John July 23, 2001 700+ words
...SCARLET PROFESSOR. Newton Arvin: A Literary Life...When they came for Newton Arvin, as he had always...professor of English at Smith College was listening...be saved by Liz Smith. Of this Truman...himself. After Newton Arvin named every name...
- Declan Kiberd's 'Irish Classics' wins 2002 Capote Award for Literary Criticism.
- News wire article from: Ascribe Higher Education News Service May 15, 2002 700+ words
...Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin. The $50,000 Capote...Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin reflects Capote's frequently...excellence in the field. Newton Arvin, in whose memory the...s academic career at Smith College was destroyed...
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- Magazine article from: American Scholar AARON, DANIEL March 22, 2001 700+ words
...my colleague, mentor, and friend Newton Arvin, who is one of three members of the Smith College faculty charged with possessing...Police--that the police raid on Newton Arvin's flat had been a spin-off of...
