Word: canted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...screen, the comedy of the absurd comes close to being a tragedy of the impossible. Author Murray Schisgal's original was a cockeyed but unerringly apt satire of people who make Freud their only poet, whose love talk is all about adjustment, alienation, angst and other pop-psychological cant. But this deft parody has given way to the adolescent vulgarisms of Scriptwriter Elliott Baker, who plots slapstick sequences in a department store and a Japanese restaurant that would be tasteless in a Jerry Lewis movie...
Just as the Government should replace cant with candor, so the dissenters need a strong dose of realism and responsibility. Among the great legal lessons of the civil rights movement, for example, is the rule that a demonstration must be reasonably related to a specific target of protest. Demonstrators who glorify the Viet Cong, burn flags or draft cards, urge the world in general to "make love, not war," are indulging in dissent for dissent's sake. They are staging a mindless happening devoid of rational ideas...
...candor seems to be replacing cant, and the picture should soon come more clearly into focus for Hanoi. "The enemy is only going to respond to pressure," Westmoreland told an interviewer before leaving for Saigon. "Once he realizes that we're no pushover, that his country is being drained when its finest manpower moves south, never to return, that his industry is being destroyed, that at the same time South Viet Nam is on the upswing, he will reassess his strategy. Once he realizes that we're ready, willing and able to continue this pressure, the facts...
...clear by this week's cover story on birth control and "the pill." The article traces the history of "the pill" over two decades of trial and error; it deals with its medical aspects as well as with its moral and social implications. It was written by Gilbert Cant, TIME's Medicine writer for 18 years, edited by Peter Bird Martin and researched by Jean Bergerud, with the help of many TIME correspondents. The cover picture is the work of Photographer Robert S. Crandall, who assembled most of the currently available pills into a shape representing the scientific...
...door seems to be like most paradises: merely dull. Its cities die at dusk, and those of its citizens who venture forth show on their faces the ennui, the boredom, of people who are constantly subjected to ideological blasts. East Germany's 40 daily newspapers are full of cant and propaganda, and even an annual folk fair has to be called a "Festival of Creative Socialism." Its intellectual life is almost totally noncreative, since voices that speak or hands that write with less than extreme caution quickly get their owners in trouble...