Word: straitjacket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...philosophically stubborn. Her memoirs of girlhood owe most of their charm to the surprising fact that her origins were Catholic, her upbringing puritan. She describes all this with considerable grace, ends with a conversion to Sartre's atheism which seems from her own testimony to be just another straitjacket, but one she can wear with arrogance...
...suicide. By this time Dr. Montague and the others insist on sending her home, and Eleanor's life ends in one of those terrible scenes of mental horror that Author Jackson knows so well how to contrive. The difficulty is that the story is itself caught in a straitjacket fashioned by the lines of case history. Expert as it is, The Haunting of Hill House is also haunted by too many other novels that owe their life to the father of psychoanalysis...
...present stage, like too much oxygen. Adult Russians have known nothing but a Communist society for the past 40 years; among educated Chinese, the memory of the atmosphere and another kind of thought is only nine years old. On such people, Mao has to cinch the Marxist straitjacket tighter. He is less free to adopt the Russians' confident approach that "peaceful competition" will lead to ultimate Communist triumph. In the classic fashion of young dictatorships, Red China must rely on "the threat from abroad" as a prop to internal discipline...
...bright promise propounded by the newest Rockefeller report of beefing up the gross national product from $434 billion today to $707 billion in 1967. "It will never be achieved if we adopt a standpat status quo attitude toward our economy. It will never be attained in a socialistic straitjacket...
...allowed to become law. Among them: it would reverse notable progress made to date in balancing farm supply with the demand for farm products, pile up more Government surpluses, discourage the growth of new markets for farmers' products, postpone the day when farmers can be freed from the straitjacket of controls. Regarding those, said Ike. "what the farm economy needs is a thaw rather than a freeze...