Word: tamely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever else it does or does not do, pornography makes strange bedfellows. New Left Philosopher Herbert Marcuse is as censorious of it as is Berns. While Berns fears that pornography makes men unrulable, however, Marcuse thinks that it makes them tame. Marcuse objects to sexual permissiveness because he thinks it is a safety valve that keeps people from exploding and breaking up the System. To him, the relaxation of sexual taboos is a sort of capitalist plot. "Desub-limation," as he calls it, is therefore repressive...
...fact, the corrections system is not a system at all. It is a hodgepodge of uncoordinated institutions run independently by almost every governmental unit in the U.S. Pacesetting federal institutions (20,000 prisoners) range from maximum-security bastilles like Atlanta Penitentiary to a no-walls unit for tame young offenders in Seagoville, Texas. The states offer anything from Alabama's archaic road gangs to California's Men's Colony West, one of the nation's two prisons for oldsters. There are forestry camps for promising men and assorted detention centers for 14,000 women. Some juvenile institutions are the best...
...still was possessed by the vision of
changing the consciousness of his time. It was a question of finding
its most vital form, of finding something to love beyond an idea or an
id
Last month an ersatz congressional election was held in which the pro-government party, ARENA, won 70% of the 310 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. ARENA'S victory against tame, regime-approved opposition candidates was not surprising, but neither was it convincing. A terrorist plea for the casting of blank ballots as a protest gesture, meanwhile, was totally ignored. Brazil's 30 million voters seemed determined to turn thumbs down on the terrorists, if not quite thumbs up for the generals...
...short story. Then the story grew first into a novella and finally into an amorphous novel full of Lowry's preoccupations with alcohol, mythologems, cabalistic gewgaws and theosophist arcana. In 1957, two months before he died after a bout of heavy drinking, Lowry was still struggling to tame the surge of words and images...