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Candy Study Guide

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by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg
About 5 pages (1,347 words)
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Social Concerns

C andy satirizes everything it can about the emerging age of liberation of the 1960s. It particularly provides a send-up for a number of relevant issues — the pornographic novel itself, and clusters of wildly liberal, leftish fads of the era, such as Zen Buddhism, Taoist mysticism, tourism, Bohemian life in Greenwich Village, pop psychiatry with its experiments and fixation upon sex, group therapy, commune-living and commune jargon, Chinese acupuncture, dabblings in kinky sex, lascivious filmscripts, bathroom comedy of manners, and a quaint fondness for incest and freaks. The era was witnessing the "opening up" of Liberalism — even to the end of its tether —.....

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Candy from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.

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