Word: taboo
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Does our culture, like many others, have an unpardonable heresy? Every culture constructs an idol unto itself, punishing heresy by excommunication. We can discover the sacred idol of any culture by finding its taboo question...
Although the postmodern era questions everything else—the possibility of knowledge, basic morality and reality itself—critical discussion of Darwin is taboo. While evolutionary biologists test Darwin’s hypothesis in every experiment they conduct, the basic premise of evolution remains an scientific Holy of Holies, despite our absurd skepticism in other areas...
...saga of a Rio de Janeiro favela, or slum, got a big publicity boost after it opened last summer, when real drug gangs swept out of Rio's favelas and briefly shut down posh neighborhoods like Copacabana. And Mexican director Carlos Carrera's The Crime of Father Amaro, the taboo-busting story of a Roman Catholic priest who impregnates an adoring teen-age girl, hit theaters during the throes of last year's clerical sexual abuse scandals. It is now Mexico's biggest home-grown box-office hit ever, as well as a nominee for Best Foreign Language Film...
...after their artistic pasts - and nurture the present and future. It's not that public funding is falling; in the U.K. and France, for example, money for the arts has risen slightly. But governments across Europe are pressuring arts bodies to become more self-sufficient - even to embrace once-taboo methods like privatization and corporate sponsorship - and to recognize that commercial viability is as critical to survival as artistic merit. "Culture is business," says Werner Heinrichs, dean at the State University for Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart. "Nobody should pretend that these two things are not linked." That lesson...
...Fred Rogers also recognized that the familiar space he had created was also a safe area for exploring topics considered taboo for children’s ears, subjects that adults discuss in whispers and hushed tones around children. “Did you ever know any grown-ups who got married and then later they got a divorce?” he once asked. And, after a suspenseful pause, Mister Rogers added: “Well it is something that people can talk about, and it is something important.” We all know that Mister Rogers...