Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the Girdle. Social Psychologist William Schutz holds workshops on "joy" aimed at "the realization of one's potential." He asks students in these "encounter groups" to act out their inner feelings rather than talk about them. A man who feels psychically "up tight" may be put inside a circle of classmates and asked to break through this human barrier. The University of California's George I. Brown, an associate professor of education, employs charades in his creativity workshops: he gets a woman to go through the motions of taking her girdle off, a man to pretend...
...gloomy. Failure to enact a 10% income tax surcharge, he told Congress last week, would leave the U.S. with "an economy in shambles." Without higher taxes, insisted Fowler, the nation faces "the biggest deficit since World War II, an overheated economy and spiraling inflation, sky-high interest rates and tight money for all borrowers...
Part of the fuel for the surge comes from the Federal Reserve Board, which has been pumping credit into the economy so fast that it has expanded the money supply at an annual rate of 7.7% so far this year, against only 2.2% during the 1966 tight-money squeeze. Looming inflation should impel the Fed to tighten up soon, but if it does many financial men fear the Treasury will be hard put to borrow $10.6 billion before year's end to pay the nation's soaring bills. "I think the Fed has been had," said former Chief...
...presidential assassination sends a shock wave of horror across a nation. Contemporary artists and writers called upon to depict or describe it all too often resort to maudlin bathos or tight-lipped understatement. Years may pass before it can be viewed with anything like objectivity-and then the initial, highly emotional reaction may fascinate the historian as much as the event. On display in Manhattan's Dintenfass Gallery last week was an exuberantly witty and challengingly mordant display of 52 paintings and collages anatomizing an assassination. Its extraordinary impact derived from the fact that the artist, Elias Friedensohn...