It is dispiriting to recall that for high school students in the 1950s, this romance-novel twaddle seemed like a breakthrough in the direction of realism. After an inadvertent sighting, Hunter and Dadier are able to report that one of these breasts (it isn't specified whether the left or the right) is 'a youthful breast, firm, with a nipple large and erect.' In Blackboard Jungle, neither the author Evan Hunter, nor his lead character Richard Dadier, who recently started to work at North Manual Trades High School, can keep their eyes off teacher Lois Hammond's 'full and rounded breasts.' She's so 'busty' and 'big-breasted' that every time she so much as shrugs her shoulders, both Hunter and Dadier continually focus on the way that 'her breasts move.' These remarkable bazooms are at some times concealed by a blouse that is 'thin nylon' and at other times by one that is 'peekaboo.' There are occasions when the Hammond breasts are enhanced by 'the delicate lace of her slip and the slender straps of her brassiere,' and other times when the 'firm abundant cones of her breasts caught tight in a white cotton bra.' But whether enhanced or restrained, not only the 'thrust of her brassiere,' but even more so 'the obvious thrust of her breasts' are under constant scrutiny.

The blackboard jungle novel