Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enlightening aspect of the present revolution is not only that more pornography and erotic freedom are being allowed, but that, perhaps for the first time, "respectable" females are seeing, hearing or doing, without shame or guilt, what was, before, the privilege of only "bad girls" and men. Can we possibly hope to be witnessing the demise of the double standard...
...with the Impressionists." In reality, as his show demonstrates, it began in 1789 with the French Revolution, which sundered the economic and social structure that had given baroque culture its unity. The pent-up forces of individualism that were released found a counterpart in a new esthetic freedom that, with the Impressionists, would climax in a complete shattering of form and balance...
...sinister than anything since the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, when constitutional rights were openly violated on the ironic grounds that this was the only way to defend the Constitution. "It is an outrage," declared Columbia University Government Professor Alan Westin, author of the 1967 book Privacy and Freedom and one of 13 professors who fired off an impassioned protest to Mitchell. "It is one of the most dangerous claims for power by an Attorney General in our history...
...tool," he said, "the temptation to use it is enormous." It could, others argued, be employed almost at will against any political dissident who happened to arouse the anger of an incumbent Attorney General. Describing the Justice Department's approach as a serious threat to the First Amendment (freedom of speech and assembly) and the Fourth (protection against unreasonable search and seizure), the American Civil Liberties Union has asked for a federal court injunction to halt all bugging of a domestic political character that is not explicitly authorized by order of the courts...
...having an actress turn her body about thirty degrees and in so doing undermine her earlier sympathetic position. In "Gare du Nord" these abrupt shifts of sympathy are used to tell the story of trapped people. (Obviously, American romantics who think of Paris as a city of escape and freedom will find no support in this film.) We first see a wife arguing with her husband, both of them trapped within a tiny but status situated apartment. After running out she is accosted by a man who, using the same banal fantasy she had earlier expressed to her husband, tries...