Word: threshold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other he labels the authoritarian technology. In less developed civilizations, authoritarian technologies consisted of men organized as human machines to produce for kings and priests. Today, he warns, we are on the threshold of a new king of authoritarian technology: "The center of authority in this new system," he wrote in "Now Let Man Take Over," "is no longer a visible personality, an all-powerful king: even in totalitarian dictatorships the center now lies in the system itself, invisible but omnipresent...
...Parsons will be preparing witnesses and planning appeals, which are his specialty. His most famous was in the 1955 case of People v. Cahan, which involved a bookmaker whose Hollywood apartment was bugged by police. Parsons claimed that law-enforcement agencies had thus electronically crossed Cahan's threshold. His argument successfully established the California law that evidence illegally obtained is inadmissible in a criminal case...
Across the Threshold. Legman's arguments are buttressed by an informed understanding of psychoanalytic theory and by a wide acquaintance with the classics. He makes a convincing case for the naked hostility hidden in most vulgarisms for the sex act. Two examples are the transparent sexuality of the most romantic of marriage rituals ("Carrying the bride across the threshold really means crossing the threshold of the bride, doesn't it?"), and the homosexual tendencies of the Don Juan ("The actual meaning of the urge to get through intercourse as fast as possible is that one hates the woman...
...event, of another magnitude altogether, and it transfixed a blase world Three U S astronauts were about to soar 230,000 miles to the moon, circle it ten times and return to earth In the eleventh year of the space age, man stood on the very threshold of exploration of the solar system...
...when we are on the threshold of true emancipation for the poor and the black, Richard Nixon talks of unity. If you must, Mr. Nixon, give us your worst, but please, spare us from unity...