Word: taboo
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...think it's kind of taboo, especially at a place like Harvard," she says. "The training assumes that everyone wants to be an academic professor...
...contrast, they shunned passages that they felt represented post-Jesus rationalizing by his disciples. That eliminated most language used to contextualize or connect; borrowings from the Old Testament (including most of what Jesus said on the Cross); and sayings expressed in explicitly Christian terms. Also taboo were monologues by Jesus to which there could have been no witness, verses expressing foreknowledge of events after his death and any claims on his part to be the Messiah. And one final admonition: "When in sufficient doubt, leave...
...TABOO TATTOOS...
...should be more critical criteria. Yes, Bob Dole is old, but can't we prove his health with his last physical report? Or his ability to walk? And we know Bill Clinton goes jogging; isn't that enough? Do we really have to endure seeing body parts that were taboo a century ago on the pages of respectable newspapers...
...group of women attending one of the first "Women's Liberation" conferences in Boston began discussing how little information they had about their own health care. So much of what they needed to know to be informed patients at the doctor's office, they thought, was usually either deemed taboo or unimportant by society. They repeated this conversation among their friends in the following days, and realized how prevalent these feelings were. Through this series of conversations, the Boston Women's Health Book Collective was created...