Word: alarms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Burger brushed aside dissenting attempts to "sound the alarm of repression." Actually, he said, "to equate the free and robust exchange of ideas and political debate with commercial exploitation of obscene material demeans . . . the First Amendment and its high purposes in the historic struggle for freedom." Courts can distinguish between ideas and exploitation. "One can concede that the 'sexual revolution' of recent years may have had useful byproducts in striking layers of prudery from a subject long irrationally kept from needed ventilation." But that should not prevent "regulation of patently offensive 'hardcore' materials...
...into use. By measuring brainwaves through the use of electrodes, a device no larger than a pack of cigarettes can gauge a person's level of concentration. If his mind begins to wander, a tone sounds, jolting him from his reverie. If he continues to daydream, another alarm goes off, notifying his boss, his teacher or some Big Brother who can promptly set the dreamer straight...
They want us all to know that our rights to privacy are daily and dangerously threatened, but they raise the alarm with a true voyeur's relish. Extreme Close-Up has a sort of coy seaminess that says less about the hero's obsessions than the hang-ups of the film mak ers, who stage each detail of erotic dalliance even more fondly than the newsman spies on it. The cast is hopelessly eager to please and includes, be sides the continually perspiring McMullan, several young women who reveal various portions of their anatomy with the zeal...
...operatives in the ranks sounded the alarm about E. Howard Hunt Jr. when their superiors didn't. The FBI agents on the line forced out L. Patrick Gray III when he admitted he burned the files. Justice Department investigators whispered their dismay over the cover-up at higher levels. If Watergate yields dividends, it could be that next time a civil servant hears the line "I have a mandate from the President ..." he will alert every one of his better instincts and ask every question he can think of before he acts...
...literacy rate in Vietnam was lower after the French left than before they arrived in the nineteenth century, but North Vietnamese children attend school next to air-raid bunkers. When American bombers are sighted, the teacher bangs a gong and the kids retreat into the shelters. When the alarm is over, they emerge happily, grinning like American kids when the ice cream man comes around the corner...