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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.”
) Hagar made Corot famous, and for the next four decades the floodgates were loosed.
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.
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.