Word: taboo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year of communal living with scant privacy produced close friendships, a good deal of casual nudity, and a strong taboo against swapping sexual partners. The group talked and moved more slowly and became more superstitious, although members found it hard to sustain an interest in the Celtic religion. "I still can't pray to their gods and goddesses," says John Rockcliff. "It takes more than a year to leave this century...
...Bicetre in Paris. In the 19th century, philanthropy suppressed that, and shame closed the asylums to view, so that insanity was not only confined but also hidden. Our own culture, despite its vast interest in neurosis, has not been able to forgive its madmen their lunacy. Thus the last taboo subject for photography is not sex, probably not even death, but madness. The act of photographing a mad person seems to return to the voyeurism of Bedlam-insanity as entertainment...
Carter has been criticized unduly for the way he has revised the vocabulary of the dispute. Israelis and their supporters in the U.S. have been especially incensed by his repeated use of the phrase "legitimate rights of the Palestinian people." Carter chose not to accept the standing taboo on the term, which, as used by many Arabs, is a code word for the creation of an independent Palestinian state bent on the destruction of Israel. He recognized that it was sad testimony to the rarefied and hopeless level of the Middle East debate if he were prohibited from saying that...
Germany, whose businessmen are rapidly becoming enthusiastic investors in the U.S. For years a kind of national taboo in Germany against "exporting jobs" limited U.S. ventures to capital-intensive firms like chemical-making Bayer or Hoechst. Now a conviction is spreading that, as one leading German banker put it, "our domestic market is saturated, and our population is overaged and shrinking. It's just prudent business that if you have a market, your production should follow." With that argument, Volkswagen's boss, Toni Schmucker, persuaded German unions and political leaders that an American plant was vital...
...recently kept its doors tightly shut to journalists and news photographers. It tried to be almost as invisible in Washington as overseas. Says Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, who reported part of our story and who has also worked in Eastern Europe and Moscow: "Even inside the embassies, it was taboo to mention...