Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first brick broke a government window, then a cascade of sticks and stones began bounding off walls, streets and skulls. Two truckloads of Soviet infantrymen, sitting impassively facing each other on benches, were hit by thrown stones. None even turned his head. Thousands began chanting the forbidden anthem...
Dissection in Secret. Curator A. (for Alpheus) Hyatt Mayor chose 100-odd prints and paintings calculated to fascinate both students and medical men. Until Pollaiuolo, the only artists who seriously studied anatomy were the Greeks. Since dissection was forbidden by their religion, they carefully watched athletes in the gymnasia. Medieval art was less concerned with reproducing correct anatomical detail than with expressing the subject's inner light. Dissection was still frowned upon in those days (though doctors often carried it on in secret...
...Pierre Cardinal Gerlier, archbishop of Lyon. Wrote the cardinal in his religious weekly: "The lowly and licentious film entitled Un Caprice de Caroline Chérie . . . is a scandalous display of vice." On church doors throughout France Caroline Chérie got a five rating on the Index of forbidden films: to be seen neither by adults nor children. Said Martine: "I'm flabbergasted! And what do they think about Mary Magdalene?" Author Cecil Saint-Laurent accused the church of yielding to Anglo-Saxon standards of prudery. But the film was passed by the French censorship, and with Cardinal...
...When he was sentenced to serve four years at hard labor, he refused to resign as mayor and announced that he would keep right on running the city from his cell. But by this time nobody was listening. When he entered gloomy old Dedham jail last week, he was forbidden to have more than one visitor a week, denied permission to use a telephone, to see aides or sign city papers. The city council president was authorized to act as mayor in his stead. Having accomplished the all-but-impossible trick of exiling himself while in office, defiant Mayor Peirce...
...Moran, executive secretary of the S.C.C.A. and a veteran of France's famed Le Mans 24-hour race, spoke up for the disgruntled drivers. "It's the European view," said Moran, "that these accidents will happen occasionally. But at Le Mans, the spectators never trespass in a forbidden or dangerous area...