Word: taboo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pool is for serious swimming only. Lolling, loitering on the ladders, fondling and other forms of country club pool behavior interfere with serious swimming and are taboo. (Why not set up the Radcliffe pool with sunlamps, coke machines, chaises longues, etc., so that it would attract people who associate swimming with dating?) Tag, king-of-the-raft, horseplay and other forms of activity appropriate in YMCA and public swimming pools are limited to Saturday morning...
...There was some achievement during the first half of my life," he reflects, "success, stability, family, money." Now in middle life, Tony craves more. He decides the new taboo subject, replacing sex, is treating life as if it had meaning. Tony dreams of selfdiscovery, of "waylaying myself like a bandit...
...Spee, like the Fly, specialized in South American slave owners' sons for a while, earning the nicknames Spic Club and Spanish Fly, but again like the Fly, it now has a diverse membership. The Spee broke a strict club taboo and opened up its3
...exchange rates of big-time currencies. Proposals are being made in both directions. Many of the discussions are as secret as sin, to prevent speculators from gaining fortunes after sniffing out future changes. As University of San Francisco Economist Frederick Breier says: "In the old days, two subjects were taboo: sex and exchange rates. The first taboo has been lifted, but the second should not be." Still, many details of the proposals have filtered out. A rundown on some of them, from most rigid to most flexible...
...anthropology, perhaps, but excellent theater as a prologue to the stage apotheosis of the late Lenny Bruce as Taboo Breaker. In Lenny, which opened on Broadway last week, the stand-up comic with the dirty mouth who died five years ago of a heroin overdose at the age of 40 has become a folk hero of the counterculture. The smartass kid from New York with his run-of-the-strip-joint shtiks ends by challenging the hypocrisies and fears and inequities of the whole square world out there...