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...actors have been arrested by local authorities for obscenity. At the festival, the troupe's musicians, who call themselves the "Gorilla Band," offered a blatantly sardonic, nose-thumbing rendition of favorite American songs like Yankee-Doodle The plays included an antiwar skit with the central image of a crutch topped by a meat grinder, a 15th century farce about the evils of the profit system and a puppet show featuring little black panthers and a little white "fuzz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Repertory: Guerrilla Drama | 10/18/1968 | See Source »

...University of Chicago Divinity School who works as a social counselor in downtown Chicago, believes that pot can be "a significant vehicle to self-realization." Others suggest that the morality of pot smoking depends on whether or not it is psychologically helpful to an individual. If marijuana is a crutch or a way of escape, says Methodist Minister Terry Cooper of Los Angeles, then it is damaging for an individual to use it. If it is a stimulus to creativity or simply a means of relaxing, there is no ethical problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Churches: The Morality of Marijuana | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

...have to breathe through your mouth to avoid the smell and clench your teeth so the flies can't get in. Beggars are everywhere and swarm around you. Children follow you holding out their hands for money. A cripple throws himself in your path, clinging shakily to his crutch, and without saying a word expresses the horror of human degradation...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: A View of Haiti | 3/9/1968 | See Source »

...week's end, walking with a crutch, Greenway was back at work, but from his home in Hong Kong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Mar. 1, 1968 | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

...dictate much of the use of graphics in advertising, and it is my understanding that use of sex symbolism is heaviest in publications read by young people. Such techniques, in my opinion, indicate a lack of creativity on the part of persons preparing the ads. The technique is a crutch where talent is absent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHY IS SEX USED TO SELL EVERYTHING? CAN'T BUSINESS ADVERTISE A PRODUCT ON ITS OWN MERITS? | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

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