Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attributes most of the sentiment opposed to marijuana to the exaggerated campaign by the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, to prejudice between the older and younger generation, and to the social connotations of the drug...
...Alcohol is seen as an agent which lubricates the wheels of commerce and catalyzes social intercourse. Marijuana is just for fun and therefore is in conflict with powerful vestiges of the Protestant Ethic," he commented...
...other words, going to this series can generate the sensibility necessary to understand the movies of the future and the past. Social reality is likely to continue growing more complex and confusing. Films, to be faithful to these conditions, will have to use more sophisticated and suggestive forms if they're to communicate more in the same time. This means widespread experimentation with form even more than changes in content. Ability to understand the meanings carried in new forms will be necessary to understand such films...
...terribly difficult to combine sex and art without suffering. Ever since Judge Wooley's historic decision on Ulysses, the moneymakers have been trying to imbue pornography with "redeeming social value." Unfortunately, this usually makes for bad pornography...
...Curious is the latest in the succession of cruel teasers. Its redeeming social content is a mindless and disjoined commentary on the failures of the welfare state and the resolute conservatism of most people you happen to meet on the street. The level of social probing reminds me of the first stages of adolescent alienation in suburbia...