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Richard Neville (born 15 December 1941) is an Australian author and self-described "futurist", who came to fame as a co-editor of the counterculture magazine ''Oz'' in Australia and the United Kingdom in the 1960s and early 1970s. He was involved with the Sydney Push libertarians at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in the early 1960s during the production of the Sydney-based ''Oz'' magazine.〔James Franklin "(The Push and Critical Drinkers )" Ch. 5 of ''Corrupting the Youth: A History of Australian Philosophy''. Accessed 18 August 2007.〕 ==''Oz''== In late 1963 or early 1964 Neville, then editor of the UNSW student magazine ''Tharunka'', met Richard Walsh, editor of its University of Sydney counterpart ''Honi Soit'', as well as artist Martin Sharp. Neville and Walsh wanted to publish their own "magazine of dissent" and asked Sharp to become a contributor. The magazine was dubbed ''Oz''. Sydney ''Oz'' hit the streets on April Fool's Day, 1963. Its irreverent attitude was very much in the tradition of the student newspapers, but its growing public profile quickly made it a target for "the Establishment", and it soon became a prominent casualty of the so-called "Censorship Wars". During the life of Australian ''Oz'', Sharp, Neville and Walsh were twice charged with printing an obscene publication. The first trial was relatively minor, and should have been a non-event, but they were poorly advised and pleaded guilty, which resulted in their convictions being recorded. As a result, when they were charged with obscenity a second time, their previous convictions meant that the new charges were considerably more serious. The charges centred on two items in the early issues of ''Oz'' - one was Sharp's ribald poem "The Word Flashed Around The Arms", which satirised the contemporary habit of youths gatecrashing parties; the other offending item was the famous photo (used on the cover of ''Oz'' #6) which depicted Neville and two friends pretending to urinate into a Tom Bass sculptural wall fountain, set into the wall of the new P&O office in Sydney, which had recently been opened by the Prime Minister Robert Menzies. Sharp, Neville and Walsh were tried, found guilty and given prison sentences. Their convictions caused a public outcry and they were subsequently acquitted on appeal, but the so-called "Oz Three" realised that there was little future battling such strong opposition. In his 1970 book ''Play Power'', Neville (who was born in 1941) boasted of having a "hurricane f..k" with a "moderately attractive, intelligent, cherubic fourteen-year-old girl from a nearby London comprehensive school". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Neville (writer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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