Word: forbiddenness
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...impose a ban on myself during the school year at Harvard: no pleasure reading. Many of my friends, even those in similarly reading-intensive concentrations like history and literature, do read for fun during the school year, but I know that if I crunch one bite of the forbidden fruit, I will be doomed forever--or at least until the end of exams. With more than 1,000 pages of reading per week, I simply don't have the three or four hours it takes to read a trashy novel, or the 10 or more that it can take...
Affirmative action was and remains one of U.S. justice's toughest calls: "Split almost exactly down the middle, the Supreme Court last week offered a Solomonic compromise...rigid quotas...were forbidden, but...race might legitimately be an element in judging [university applicants]...Writing six different opinions totaling 154 pages, the Justices were as torn [as] the rest of the nation. The case had attracted 61 amicus curiae briefs, [the most ever submitted]...Three times the opinions were sent to the printer only to be pulled back for additions, deletions and revisions. The version finally made public was the fourth. [Justice...
Described somewhat unimaginatively on the back of the video-casette box as "an erotic tale of forbidden love" (jackpot!), this lush film got much praise when it debuted a few years ago. Poor Tita and Pedro--so in love, but kept apart by a cruel tradition which stipulates that Tita must remain single and serve her family. A solution seems to present itself when Pedro marries her older sister and Tita serves as their cook--the sexual tension is thicker than flan and a lot hotter...
...said prisoners were forbidden to use the words "we," "they," "us" and "you." By using those words, a prisoner was considered to be setting himself apart as an individual, he said, an act discouraged by the communist government and its prison guards...
...watch for another change in the weather if the President's testimony in the Little Rock Whitewater trial falls into enemy hands. It was videotaped over the weekend at the White House, with all presidential atmospherics forbidden. Floyd Brown, author of George Bush's infamous Willie Horton ads, is salivating; he is threatening to sue to get the footage. Only a perp walk and an orange jumpsuit could excite Republicans more...