Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chances. The other seven drew sentences ranging from one to five years in prison camp. They were convicted on lesser charges of spreading anti-Soviet propaganda and stealing "state or social ist property"-to wit, a duplicating machine, which Soviet citizens are forbidden to have. The authorities took no chances on the trial's outcome. Some defense witnesses were suddenly granted exit visas to Israel and told to depart before the court hearing. At least three others were shipped out of town on "business affairs"-two to Siberia-on pain of losing their jobs if they refused...
...Forbidden Subjects. If feelings such as fear, disappointment, envy and grief are concealed, Paul believes, they are distilled and passed on from generation to generation. "As each new set of parents accords its young the treatment it received earlier," he says, "every child is left to traverse life's problems alone." What both young and old need to break out of that pattern, he suggests, is profound empathy...
...number of enterprising U.S. middlemen, some of whom operate out of Texas, have been in touch with Peking about arranging sales of 727s. Jetliners and other high-technology products are still on a list of goods forbidden by the U.S. Government for export to China. But a new list-now being drafted jointly by the Departments of State, Defense, Treasury, Commerce and Agriculture-is expected to be more permissive...
What would have happened, Miss Pullar speculates, if the Puritans had not forbidden spices as exciters of passion, and generally brought to a crisis the English gourmet's problem, which she defines as "the neurosis between the soul and the body"? The English tradition, she thinks, "might have blossomed as richly as that of the French." After Cromwell, mourns Miss Pullar, "nothing was ever quite the same again." "Mighty Roast Beef" became the national dish...
...frankly praises the use of massive bombardment and technological destruction on such a scale as to empty out the Vietnamese countryside. The result of this tactic is-in his famous word-"urabnization." Now it so happens that policies like those recommended by Prof. Huntington are implicitly or explicitly forbidden by the Hague Convention and the Geneva Convention of 1949. Freefire zones, defoliation, forced relocation, squalid refugee camps, the shooting of prisoners. the saturation bombing in areas such as Northern Laos where literally all villages have been destroyed-these brutal actions are part and parcel of a calculated "solution" which Prof...