<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> In the hands of a rococo Yankee named Clyde Fitch, the American stage came of age with a gasp of scandalized shock</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Anthony Comstock spent a lifetime on a crusade to clean the nation’ Augean stables of smut, vice, and nudity. Sometimes it seems as if he pried in vain</span> </span></p>