Word: forbiddenness
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Though it is not forbidden by law, Secretary of State George Shultz had twice urged them not to do it. "As a matter of longstanding tradition, ambassadors have been discouraged from extensive participation in partisan political campaigns," he wired...
...play's message is straightforward. The protagonist, a man named Fifty (indicating his lifespan), is rebelling against a his society, a futuristic world in which people's lives are based on their anticipation of death. Each character learns at birth how long he will have to live, but is forbidden from revealing his moment of death to anyone else. Everyone's age is public knowledge, but only an individual knows when his "moment" will occur...
...League president have been the moderator? Why couldn't distinguished former elected officials, from all points of the political spectrum, have constituted the panel? At least then a tendency to digress from the true subject of the evening would have been understandable, even expected, and could have been expressly forbidden beforehand...
Inside the walls, Reverend Moon is running his church from his cell. Ironically, Warden Dennis Luther has forbidden Moon from Proselytizing to his fellow prisoners, citing a regulation which bars prisoners from operating their "businesses" within the prison. The Federal government has elearly decided that the religion of Reverend Sun Myung Moon is business...
Seasoned reporters who have hopped the continents, wide-eyed neophytes about to be sent to Russia, professors eager to trade scraps of information all gathered at the Faculty Club to share insights about what is in many ways a forbidden land...