Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...game, sport, play, or public diversion, including, specifically, miniature golf, is forbidden by law on Sunday in Massachusetts. This same law also once closed the doors of movie theaters, unless their owners could get a city license to show a picture. But the cities of Massachusetts could not grant such a license without a censor's written approval that the film was in keeping with the character of the day. Even the State government got into the act; the Commissioner of Public Safety had to see the picture, too. All this censorship machinery, however, came to a sudden halt last...
Sunday censorship was only one of the famous "blue laws" which have been part of the State's statutes since colonial days. Yet they were not an American invention. All "unnecessary work" on Sundays has been forbidden in England since 1678. Colonial lawyers only expanded the British precedent with typical thoroughness, among other things, forbidding a man to kiss his wife on the Lord's Day. Since the no-kissing days, chapter 136 of the Massachusetts General Laws, the blue law code, has been amended many times. Censorship of entertainment grew out of one of these amendments...
...Judaism has been the religion of one people, its heart being the covenant between God and Israel. Some day, according to the bulk of Jewish tradition, that covenant will include all mankind. In the meantime converts are traditionally discouraged, and conversion merely for the sake of marriage is expressly forbidden...
...banned from the Roman Catholic churches in his archdiocese some of the country's favorite church music as "unliturgical." The cardinal's authority: Pope Pius X (1903-14), who, in his encyclical Motu Proprio, cited "sanctity and goodness of form" as necessary to sacred music. Among the forbidden titles, many of which have also been banned in other dioceses: the Wagner and Mendelssohn wedding marches, originally written for the theater, and several Ave Marias, including Schubert's, originally a concert number; Verdi's, from the opera Otello; Mascagni's, based on the Cavalria Rusticana intermezzo...
...other line (but does not), appears to enjoy his own performance enormously (and does). One customer, who apparently has almost as good a time with Borge's performance as Borge, has been to see him 54 times. Another man laughed so hard he had a heart attack, was forbidden by his wife after his recovery to look at Borge...