Word: used
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still, the liberating laws were there-largely unavailing and unenforced, but there. Last week the Supreme Court reached back across more than 100 years to use one of them to impose a major new rule on the country. The court's concern was racial discrimination in housing-long one of the most emotional of civil rights issues. Only three months ago, housing was the target of a new and hard-fought civil rights law, but the court's decision made the lengthy congressional argument over that law seem largely academic. The long-ignored Civil Rights...
...conventions of representative painting-perspective. Though the impressionists made light of it, the cubists deliberately flouted it, and abstract expressionists ignored it, perspective now seems to be staging a comeback-with a significant difference. Where the Renaissance relied on it to convey an illusion of reality,* the new painters use it as a playful device for emphasizing the gap between reality and illusion...
Medical research into the effects of marijuana is still in its infancy-so much so that last week's condemnation had to be based on the same sparse evidence that others have used to support the use, and legalization, of the drug. The major difference, therefore, was one of perspective and emphasis...
...well established that the use of marijuana does not produce physical dependence, but can result in psychological dependence. Advocates of legalized marijuana concede this, but add that already disturbed users are more likely than others to develop such dependence. The A.M.A.-N.R.C. report makes no such distinctions; by merely pointing out that the drug can cause psychological dependence, it implied that it should .be avoided...
...Those who use marijuana to excess, it is known, run the risk of lessened intellectual activity. Pot partisans point out that those who use alcohol to excess not only lessen intellectual activity but cause damage to the brain, liver and heart as well. The A.M.A.-N.R.C. report contents itself with pointing out that social productivity is reduced in those areas of Asia, Africa and South America where heavy use of marijuana is common...