Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sacrifice of Self. There are three main areas to be operated upon, represented by the vows. The vow of poverty, designed to cut through the hampering entanglement of material things, operates on many levels; Carmelites and some other religious are forbidden to use the word "my" except for their faults (they refer to "our" cell, "our" Breviary). Poverty applies equally to any kind of attachment. Sisters are systematically frustrated by their superiors in the tendency to become identified with a particular job or hobby. Still more strictly applied, the vow of poverty applies also to impressions. Contemplatives are actually enjoined...
...looking, fascinated by Gandhi, the Christian saints and by books (he assembled a personal library of 10,000), he long ago pledged himself to chastity; he is so uncomfortable around women that he has none on his personal staff and he once put a sign outside his office: WOMEN FORBIDDEN. Yet Diem is also- indulgent and demonstrative, downs huge breakfasts of such dishes as stuffed cabbage, and sometimes at formal receptions he handles his chopsticks like a coolie, shoving bowl to mouth and shoveling. He likes to hunt (duck and tiger). He may erupt into sudden violence. Considering someone...
...used to have about as much job security as French Premiers. In its 51 years the orchestra has had 13 "permanent" conductors, and few of them managed to last more than a season or two. Seattle's worst moment came in 1951, when French Conductor Manuel Rosenthal was forbidden re-entry to the U.S. for a Gallic breach of morals (the official reason was perjury concerning his marital status when he returned; the lady who traveled with him was not his wife). After the symphony's officials stopped blushing, they decided not to hire anyone for a while...
...years at high school, Craig went to Culver Military Academy, an experience that has left him with a cadet's brace posture. Because he wanted to see some of the country, he spent his first two college years at the University of Arizona, where he joined the forbidden drinking fraternity, Kappa Beta Phi, which was the reverse of Phi Beta Kappa in more than title. "I took liberal arts," says Craig. "Damn liberal, too, I'll tell...
...intention of the ctnsors is clear. Any practical example of Christianity artfully conceived must be forbidden on Sunday, a day already perverted by the influence of religion . . . Now, I should like publicly to correct the malicious gossip that the censers are attempting one of the following: 1) to drive the restless from wholesome entertainment on a day of boredom in order to encourage desperate amusements; 2) to entice disbelievers into the moviehouses on weekdays by banning harmless moral productions on Sundays; 3) to promote a Christian revival by a mild martyrdom of Christian art . . .; or 4) to annoy moviegoers...