Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beauty. If West Egg for Gatsby had been a sort of haunted place, it had to look much more like paradise to most who had not lived there. And even more in the Depression that followed so close upon his death could it offer the fascination of the forbidden. If men could not have it and men could much less forget it, then it could still be had in dream and fantasy. In a grandeur of escapism might Gatsby's dream be borne back from the past. Yes, Hollywood could do as much...
...government agency from assigning schoolchildren to or requiring them to attend a particular school on account of race, creed, or color. It would constitute, in effect, a supporting provision in the Constitution for the true interpretation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, namely, that government is forbidden to use race, creed, or color in connection with its official policies and programs...
...Papadopoulos' rule. Students are harassed by police, who constantly loiter on campuses and are suspected of having informers in the classrooms. The right-wing newspaper Vradyni, Athens' major evening journal, has been shut down for criticizing the government. Koumkan, a rummylike game adored by Greek housewives, is forbidden as degenerate; after a brief revival under Papadopoulos, the music of Marxist Composer Mikis Theodorakis is once more discouraged, as singers are told, "for your own good." The possibility that elections may be held some day is no longer seriously discussed...
...down completely. In the city of Ghaziabad, other industries are allowed power to operate only between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. That move saves power for domestic and office use during the day, but it automatically idles 15% of the factory work force of 70,000, since women are forbidden by law to work after...
Love Letters. After the death of his wife Martha in 1782, when Jefferson was only 39, he attempted or actually engaged in liaisons with several women, all of whom, as Brodie suggestively phrases it, were "in some sense forbidden." Appropriately, it was in Paris that Widower Thomas Jefferson, 42, enjoyed his flashiest illicit idyl. As a trade negotiator for George Washington, and later Benjamin Franklin's successor as Minister to France, the lanky Virginian fell in love with Maria Cosway, a capricious Englishwoman married to an obnoxious painter and court toady in London...