Word: straitjackets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loosen the legal straitjacket, eight states recently have reduced the penalty for possessing marijuana from a felony to a misdemeanor, or given their judges the discretion of reducing it. Their action is in line with the recommendations of every national commission that has studied the subject since a White House conference on drug abuse in 1962?and directly opposite to the tack that the Nixon Administration is taking...
Equally Unkind. The standard treatment for insanity in George Ill's day was coercion and restraint. If he refused to eat because he had difficulty swallowing, or if he was too restless to lie down, his attendants would put him in a straitjacket...
Nabokov's novels, prefaces and discourses drip with scathing references to Freud. His basic objection to Freudian theories is that they slight the creative imagination by putting it in a sexual straitjacket and by insisting that dreams and images are determined mechanistically. "I reject completely the vulgar, shabby, fundamentally medieval world of Freud," he writes, "with its crankish quest for sexual symbols (something like searching for Baconian acrostics in Shakespeare's works) and its bitter little embryos spying from their natural nooks upon the love life of their parents." Nabokov may yet get his wish to see Shakespeare in heaven...
...margin, the court reversed a lower court that had convicted Kelley of indecent exposure for her performance at a San Pablo, Calif., nightclub. "The First Amendment," said the justices, "cannot be constricted into a straitjacket of protection for political expression alone. It extends to all forms of communication, including the highest: the work of art." Moreover, the majority pointed out, "the dance is perhaps the earliest and most spontaneous mode of expressing emotion and dramatic feeling...
Siegel fleshes out this lean plot by taking a long look at low life in Fun City. Using discotheques, squad rooms and pool halls, he creates a tense atmosphere of violence that encloses the action like a straitjacket. Eastwood, who has hitherto displayed nothing more than a capacity for iron-jawed belligerency in a series of Italian-made westerns, performs with a measure of real feeling in the first role that fits him as comfortably as his tooled leather boots...