Word: straitjacketing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...England intellectual's self-assurance and the Thoreauesque tradition of rebellious individualism. Just as Cummings began writing verse, Ezra Pound and the Imagists had turned old poetic practice upside down. Cummings was quick to follow them in tossing out high-flown poetic rhetoric and shucking off the straitjacket of traditional verse forms. Above all, the Imagist doctrine of quick impact was made for Cummings. Explaining his own techniques, he said: "I can express it in 15 words, by quoting The Eternal Question and Immortal Answer of Burlesk. viz.: 'Would you hit a woman with a baby...
...JOHN C. SATTERFIELD, outgoing A.B.A. president, criticized the U.S. Supreme Court for decisions that expose "the individual to a much wider degree of judicial supervision and governmental regulation than has been the case in the past . . . There is real danger that the states will soon be placed in a straitjacket of federal conformity extending far beyond the prohibitions placed by the states in the Bill of Rights against actions by the central Government ... It would seem that practically the only area remaining even partially free from some kind of regulation by the central Government is that of purely private relations...
...just come to live and teach philosophy in Paris, ready to be aggressively free from the grim bourgeois straitjacket she so compellingly described in Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Sartre, 24, the high-priest-to-be of existentialism, was a physically unprepossessing philosopher with an urge to write. The two plighted their troth in what was destined to become one of the strangest and most durable extracurricular alliances of modern times. The Prime of Life is Simone de Beauvoir's account of her own philosophical growth and self-inflicted torments from 1929 to 1944-the first 15 years...
...Bottle. There are the mel ancholy scenes of Lewis' increasing irascibility and wild bouts of drunkenness. In 1941, in an alcoholic fit, he smashed the furniture in his apartment. The doctor summoned Dorothy, by then living elsewhere, and with two male nurses and a straitjacket they carted Lewis off to a hospital. The whole time Lewis screamed, in frenzied parody of his wife: "You are sick, sick . . . Can't you take hold of yourself? . . . Hal, listen, please, this is Dorothy! Hear...
Sick, Sick, Sick Pay. If Western psychiatrists could pity the Russians for being still confined in the straitjacket of Pavlov's physiological, conditioned-reflex theories, they could feel no superiority about the availability and effectiveness of straightforward, pragmatic psychiatry in Russia-at least the way the Russians told it. There seems to be about as much mental illness (certainly the handicapping forms such as schizophrenia) in the U.S.S.R. as in the West. But there are many fewer patients in mental hospitals at any one time. Reason: the Russians are taking psychiatry to the patients at the street-corner level...