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Selznick pleaded to Hays, with a touch of irony, perhaps, “I do not feel that your giving me permission to use `damn' in this one sentence will open up the floodgates.”
As the Tokugawa shoguns had feared, this opening of the floodgates of Western culture after such prolonged isolation had a traumatic effect on Japanese society.
) Hagar made Corot famous, and for the next four decades the floodgates were loosed.
I think this last interpretation is unfortunate, because it opens the floodgates for unlimited contributions from corporations and labor unions, which is what the post-Watergate election reforms were supposed to prevent.
But in his entirely marvelous book How the Mind Works , cognitive scientist Steven Pinker suggests that we can safely posit a taste for self-control without opening the floodgates that would allow us to posit a taste for drinking motor oil.