Word: forbiddenness
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Amid the chaos of mass urbanization in the late 19th century, teens were already notoriously drawn to trouble. The street gangs that carved up New York City back then were fueled by crime, but many members joined primarily for the sake of the fringe benefits - access to the forbidden pleasures of drink, drugs and sex. And then, as ever since, young toughs also had an eye to fashion. For example, the Parisian hoodlums of that era - known as Apaches - wore silk foulards and, writes Savage, "an air of bourgeois hauteur." In England's inner cities, where there were regular pitched...
...liberal, pluralistic ideal of a society where everyone is free to participate equally, regardless of race or religion or creed, has advanced admirably in the West, while in certain areas of the world homosexuals are still hanged, rape victims stoned, and women forbidden to drive a car or receive an education. It would be a mistake, in this précis of progress, to omit the cultural accomplishments that bestowed our civilization its sublimity. From Einstein’s almost mystical insights into the four-dimensional structure of space and time to the discovery of the universal template of organic...
...benign: Falling behind on her work scanning paper copies of nuclear-weapons designs into a digital format, she would save highly classified documents onto a "thumb drive" and then take the material home to work on after hours, she has said. The practice of inserting thumb drives was specifically forbidden by then DOE secretary Bill Richardson in 1999, but was apparently not uncommon at Los Alamos. Using thumb drives, and at least one wireless (WIFI) device that was improperly in the secure area, it would have been possible to transfer secret material from classified computers to non-classifed computers...
...wars, genocides, carpet-bombings, and shooting rampages, but our incapacity to understand evil without replicating it. Despite the efforts of millions of souls, no evil is ever the last evil. We forget too quickly and the temptation grows in our minds again to remember the taste of that forbidden fruit...
Players declined to comment on their meeting with Amaker or the ongoing search for a coach, stating that they have been forbidden to speak to the press by Scalise until the process has come to its completion...