Word: constricted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since Hair made nudes a commercial fad, one sexual taboo after another has been shattered. The logical end was Che!, which promised copulation onstage. It does not happen. The actors fake it. The uninhibited cast has reached the pitch of passion in rehearsals, but performances before an audience obviously constrict the actors. Even so, what does happen would fill an animated sex manual. Conjecture one hour and forty minutes during which each orifice and organ of the male and female body is employed in all possible combinations...
Besides raising the cost of money, the Federal Reserve has been acting to constrict the nation's money supply. For much of 1968, the Reserve Board allowed the money stock to grow at an annual rate of 11%. But in the four weeks ended Jan. 1, the money supply rose at a 3.6% annual rate. By any measure, that amounts to a significant-if so far brief-squeeze...
...until the end of World War II, when the Allies captured Nazi stores. Releasing a flood of the body chemical acetylcholine, which sets off muscle contractions, nerve gases cause uncontrollable convulsions in their victims. By one scientist's account, according to Hersh, "The pupils, bladder and alimentary canal constrict, the penis erects, the tear and saliva glands secrete and the heart slows." The victim is generally asphyxiated...
...fusion tends to confirm extremist notions that U.S. institutions are moribund, that the only solution is to uproot society and start afresh. Only the fatuous deny that too many courts, legislatures, federal agencies and universities have grown unmindful of their duty to liberate rather than constrict. Yet in advanced countries, institutions cannot be eliminated; the infinitely complex problems of crime or poverty require organized experts. There is no Gordian knot waiting to be slashed. To yearn for apocalypse and reject the real task-to reform failing institutions-is simply to sabotage one of the world's few self-governing...
...there is also a little of the cynical, skeptical Voltaire in the Frenchman?and a lot of the stubborn, even violent individualist. Smug paternalism at home did not wear nearly so well as posturing abroad. The Gaullist panoply gradually began to enshadow and constrict every aspect of French life, from politics to morals, painting to fashion. The rhythm of French existence perceptibly altered. Hints of ennui crept in?and boredom has always been underrated as a revolutionary force. Paris was no longer the most richly alive city in Europe. Looking beneath the glittering surface of Gaullist France as long...