Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reasonable. Father Morton Hill, a New York City Jesuit and veteran porn fighter, wants newsstands and drugstores to stop carrying porn. "There should be better control over what children can see or hear, and we should keep porn out of public view," he says. Adds University of California Psychologist Jay Mann, who generally sees no harm in porn: "Privacy is just as important as the right to such materials...
...drawing the line at Snuff, a wretched soft-core movie in which a woman is eviscerated and sawed to pieces by a sadistic gang leader apparently modeled on Charles Manson. (Though the advertising implies the woman was actually murdered, it is a hoax.) "If anything should be censored," says Psychologist Wardell Pomeroy, co-author with Alfred Kinsey of Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, "Snuff would head the list." The movie was banned in Baltimore, Wilmington, Del., and Orange County, Calif. In New York City, protesters picketed the theater showing Snuff. Such fledgling porn fighters as Critic Susan Sontag, Historian...
...legal sparring began with a clash between defense and prosecution over whether Judge Oliver J. Carter should allow the jury to hear the testimony of Margaret Singer, a Berkeley psychologist who is an expert at analyzing speech patterns. Bailey wanted Singer to tell the jury that Patty had been reciting her captors' words when she recorded some of her startling messages on tapes that were sent back from the underground world of the Symbionese Liberation Army. Browning, in turn, argued that Singer's kind of testimony should not be heard because of a lack of both legal precedent...
...tape made prior to her kidnaping. The defendant, the witness noted, had a tendency to speak in simple declarative sentences and in the present tense. Singer said that Patty's first taped communiques ("Mom, Dad, I'm O.K.") seemed to be in her own words. But the psychologist felt that Patty had not composed the belligerent "Tania tapes," in which Patty ridiculed her parents and Fiance Steven Weed, declared that she had willingly taken part in the robbery of the Hibernia Bank branch in San Francisco and declared herself a revolutionary ("I have chosen to stay and fight...
...psychiatrist said, he became convinced that she was telling the truth. West was one of the four experts appointed by Judge Carter in September to determine if Patty was stable enough to go into court. In a 135-page document that he wrote with Margaret Singer, a Berkeley psychologist, West raised doubts that Patty was then competent to stand trial. He also concluded that she was so thoroughly influenced by her captors that she had no choice but to go along on the bank robbery. Backing up Bailey's claims, West said that Patty had experienced "a classic example...