Word: straitjacket
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...heart, clearly, is in the right place. The problem lies in the clearness of his head. The power of the state does often seem largely beyond simple human control. Technology, indeed, can be more of a straitjacket than a servant to man. It is unarguably true that the law is often not only inhumane but serves as the implacable friend of wrongdoing. Reich makes these points, but in language so maddeningly overstated, so gratuitously contradictory, so alternately abusive and effusive that it would hardly do for a pot-scented post-midnight colloquy in a college dormitory...
June 15: [After Grigorenko began a hunger strike] they started to force-feed me. They put me in a straitjacket, beat me and choked me. Then they began the painful procedure by putting a clamp in my mouth to keep it open...
...African Company, while avoiding sterile and monochromatic abstraction, cannot entirely escape the verbal straitjacket in which Genct has encased his ideas. While reveling in the astonishing exoticism of Esther Folle's portrayal of Felicity Trollop Pardon or Mary Alice's impish Stephanie Virtue Secret-rose Diop, one can hardly forget that, without the stage presence of these strong personalities, the characters would be entirely forgettable-perhaps, even interchangeable. Gustave Johnson (as Deodatus Village) and Catherine Sella (as Adelaide Bobo) lack the requisite intensity and control to attain a similar mastery over their roles...