Word: harmlessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problems. Will porn's power to lessen inhibitions, which has perhaps already won some acceptance for practices long regarded as aberrant, do the same for rape and sadomasochism, both now part of the usual repertoire of film and printed porn? Writer Irving Kristol complains porn is considered harmless "by the very same people who seem convinced that advertisements in magazines or displays of violence on television do indeed have the power to corrupt...
...studies to demonstrate whatever you want." Harvard Political Scientist James Q. Wilson argues that the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence decided television violence was dangerous, with as little real proof at hand as the obscenity commission had when it decided pornography was harmless. Says Wilson: "In the cases of violence and obscenity, it is unlikely that social science can either show harmful effects or prove there are no harmful effects...
...civilizing ideals which, Scenarist Mitchell implies, persist into and continually plague the 20th. Accordingly, this Friday comes from a very hip tribe. He laughs openly at Crusoe's attempts to instill the principles of wage-earning and sporting competition and figures Christianity to be foolish but harmless. Crusoe is soon turned into a pratfall personification of Western man. When an opportunity to escape the island arrives, he begs to join Friday's tribe. They will not have him, and he must return again to his lonely habitation...
...economic system that capitalists could enjoy dividends and workers pay raises; similarly, "special interests," like farmers and government workers, could have subsidies and increasing absolute shares of national income. In this way, hedonism, the villain of Bell's analysis, was defused as a political danger and displaced into the harmless arena of culture, which it has dominated since the late 19th century. The anti-capitalism of American avant-garde artists, writers, intellectuals and even Greenwich Village is a result of the individual's refusal to subordinate the myth of liberalism--the individual's total freedom--to the Protestant ethic...
...arrived from jail shackled as though she were an accused ax murderer. Her manacled hands were chained to a heavy belt that was buckled tightly around her slim waist. But by the time she walked into the crowded courtroom, the chains had been removed and she looked harmless and vulnerable. The rather wan, unsmiling young woman bore little resemblance to the gum-chewing, self-professed revolutionary with the giddy grin of bravado who was arrested last September. Now, at long last, she took her place on the witness stand and sat demurely, just as she had been taught years...