Word: floridation
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...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...
Priests have a number of explanations for the decline: competition from television, introduction of evening Mass, the florid and old-fashioned tone of most novena prayers, which are aimed at Mary rather than Christ. But the deeper reason is that the Vatican Council's liturgical reforms have given Catholics an opportunity to participate actively at Mass, thus making it vastly more meaningful than the novena as an expression of their faith. Says one Boston priest: "The Mass has taken over-thank...