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Word: assaultâ (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1983-1983
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Rape and family violence and incest are still uncomfortable subjects. And the common good is hardly better served by easy statutory fiats?one spouse slapping another is not just like any other criminal assault???than by the old silence of misplaced propriety. But the unspeakable must be spoken, in all of its repellent conjugations. Take, for example, the biggest taboo: "As long as incest has that secrecy," says Miriam Ingebritson, a Minneapolis therapist, "it has a potency and power it doesn't deserve. It has to be stripped of that power." There are now all kinds of places to turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Private Violence | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

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