Word: floridation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robert Kennedy a grave injustice in comparing him to William Buckley [April 8]. Buckley's "devastating repartee" is devastating only as a revelation of his florid rhetoric and flabby thinking. For all his egomaniacal viciousness, the vocabulary he frequently misuses and the logic he invariably abuses, I doubt that Buckley has contributed one original idea to public discussion or performed one act of public service. Why should a man of accomplishment debate a nonentity? Or, in Buckley's idiom, why use a saber to chop hamburger...
...difficult to see how talk about sex can be placed under the kind of censorship the court here approves without subjecting our society to more dangers than we can anticipate at the moment." The new pandering rule, added Douglas, makes unconstitutional "an advertising technique as old as history." However "florid" a book's cover, he argued, "the contents remain the same...
...Florid & Terrifying." Southern California devotees proclaim the alleged benefits of LSD with evangelistic fervor. They say it brings supernatural powers. It does not, say U.C.L.A. psychiatrists. Some say it is an aphrodisiac. It is not. They say it helps the user to solve his emotional problems. It may-but only if the solution is already in the mind, hidden behind an emotional block...
What LSD actually has done for far too many users, says U.C.L.A.'s Psychiatric Resident Duke D. Fisher, is to produce "florid psychoses with terrifying visual and auditory hallucinations, marked depression, often with serious suicide attempts, and anxiety bordering on panic. One patient tried to kill himself when he thought his body was melting, and he remained suicidal for more than two weeks, after only one dose of LSD. Other patients have required more than two months of psychiatric hospitalization. Still others have been sent to state hospitals for long-term treatment." Adds U.C.L.A. Psychiatrist J. Thomas Ungerleider...
...native of Tulsa, Davis, 56, is a florid, old-fashioned kind of orator who held pastorates at Chickasha, Okla., St. Joseph, Mo., and Wichita Falls, Texas (where he first preached to Johnson in 1959), before coming to National City in 1961. Even without presidential patronage, it was a flattering call. National City's worshipers have traditionally included Congressmen and Senators; among those who frequently attend these days are Generals Omar Bradley and Maxwell Taylor...