Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their ... houses." The Constitution, he wrote, has "drawn a firm line at the entrance to the house." Police have long been required to have warrants to make most nonconsensual searches; this, said the majority, should also apply to arrests. The fact that the court as a whole rejected Justice Byron White's dissenting opinion that the decision would only help felons avoid capture may signal a significant change: in the early and mid-1970s the Justices usually took a hard line in Fourth Amendment decisions, chipping away at the liberal precedents established by the Warren Court...
...calm the spirit, Byron suggested, apply "rum and true religion." Alas for Georgian simplicities. The rum has turned to water, the religion to immersion. Relentlessly, Americans have sought spiritual calm in steam baths, saunas, Jacuzzi whirlpools and hot tubs. Now, in the quest for tranquillity, some of them are dunking themselves, in total darkness and aloneness, for an hour or more at a time in small tanks filled with 250 gal. of 93.5° salt water. Why? To achieve, through "sensory deprivation," surcease from tension, reconciliation with the id, relief from jet lag, hangover, back pain or nicotine withdrawal...
Most cultures think of the limerent as a bit crazy, but you're in good company, Ralph. Stendhal, Héloïse and Henry VIII were limerent. Lord Byron is the best-known dropout from limerence; after the Sturm und Drang with Lady Caroline Lamb, he simmered down. Something worth thinking about, Ralph...