Supporters also argued that the perceived hostility toward religious expression coincided with an increase in violence, crime and moral turpitude.
For some years now, however, in all the arts, the pendulum has been swinging from abstraction back toward theatrical expression.
The composition of images by emotion was the ultimate extension of oneself in an effort toward artistic expression.
This impulse toward personal expression goes all the way back to America's first glass factory, in South Jersey.
Instead, he seems to have moved away from form toward gestural expression - but without a choreographer to tell him how.
Thus on Sunday, the trombone became less a means toward musical expression than an engineering study in itself.
And they all affirm that the will toward visual expression is hard-wired into human nature.
Male attitudes toward sexuality (and toward expression of feelings) vary from culture to culture.
"I think there's a tendency toward greater personal expression," said Mr Holt.
It's not the opinion I find distressing, but the underlying attitude toward artistic expression that is different, difficult or demanding.