Stifle-a word that was very prominently present in and throughout The 1970's. The word means to cut off or to limit, to ask someone to hold back and to be a self-censor! If you watched the TV Show All in The Family it is a word often Spoken by Archie Bunker- who was played by Carroll O'Connor.
Archie often said this to order his wife Edith - played by Jean Stapleton- to say nothing that he did NOT agree with or wish to hear. One of the elaborate jokes of the CBS series is that Edith still managed to get out what she had to say despite being told repeatedly to "stifle" as she managed to express herself fully!
In 2010, We see stifling as a negative, as something it is just wrong to try to impose upon others! We may argue with others and not at all want to hear what they have to say, but we do not believe as we , as a society once did that we can simply, because that is how we wish it to be, order people to be silent.
I am, as I have noted, very much of a traditionalist and a conservative. Yet, I do so that living in the 2010's offers some better options that living in the 1970's did!
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