Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unlike samizdat, which is forbidden, magnitizdat has not been declared illegal. "So far as we know, no one has yet been arrested for composing, performing, taping or playing the tapes in Russia," says Misha Allen, an emigre from Russia living in Toronto who has collected more than 700 modern Soviet songs. "Probably the state regards the songs as a safety valve for the rebellious. Besides, many are patriotic." Still, as Allen points out, the Soviet authorities are not exactly delighted about the trend. Recently, tapes acquired in Russia by a few Western tourists have been seized by Soviet customs...
Assuming, however, that these blatantly sexist laws are abolished or reformed, that job discrimination is forbidden, that parents share financial responsibility for each other and the children, and that sexual relationships become partnerships of equal adults (some pretty big assumptions), then marriage will probably go right on. Men and women are, after all, physically complementary. When society stops encouraging men to be exploiters and women to be parasites, they may turn out to be more complementary in emotion as well. Women's Lib is not trying to destroy the American family. A look at the statistics on divorce-plus...
Ugly Rumors. Niarchos was told not to leave the country, and Eugenie's body was taken to Athens for an autopsy. Officials said nothing, and the Greek press was forbidden to discuss the investigation. But the Niarchos family leaked the medical examiner's report that Eugenie, who had taken 25 Seconal tablets, had died from an overdose of barbiturates. The report also supported Niarchos' contention that the bruises on her body were caused by his efforts to revive...
...between Israel and Egypt, the government of Premier Golda Meir issued a sudden, stunning alarm that the agreement had been violated. Israel had proof, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan said, that Egypt and the Soviet Union had whisked new missiles into the cease-fire zone, although both sides were specifically forbidden, according to the truce, to "change the military status quo" there. The time had come, Israel demanded, for the U.S. to perform its duty as both ally and peacemaker and get the weapons...
Psalm singing at funerals was forbidden, and, when the wife of a prominent Catholic citizen had a child, the ghetto had to offer her twelve pounds of sugar, twice that for twins...