‘Howl’ too hot to hear 50 years after poem ruled not obscene, radio fears to air it Fifty years ago today, a San Francisco Municipal Court judge ruled that Allen Ginsberg’s Beat-era poem “Howl” was not obscene. Yet today, a New York public broadcasting station decided not to air the poem, fearing that the […]
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