Word: taboo
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When he spoke of the rules at Liberty, he seemed almost unaware of their anachronistic rigidity: the restriction on freshman and sophomore dating, the ban on alcohol and tobacco, the outlawing of unauthorized demonstrations, the taboo against rock music, even country and western. "The students know I love country and western, and listen to it at home," Falwell smiled. "But it's the discipline that counts. Families send their children here for discipline and values...
Most of the 66 proctors also double as academic advisers. However, because proctor groups are larger than adviser ones, some Yardlings must travel beyond their entryway to find academic counseling. Yet, don't think it's taboo to ask your proctor academic questions even if he or she is not your official adviser. Advisers will hold more formal discussions than proctors. Many of these concern concentration course and even career choices. The bulk of their work comes at the start of the semester when advisers schedule individual meetings with freshmen to help them choose courses as well as to sign...
...years my dad would rig the set with booby traps so he could tell if I snuck TV time while they were out to dinner. But I sneaked anyway. When baby-sitters would inevitably fall asleep, I'd sneak downstairs and watch Science Fiction Theater and other taboo shows with the sound on very low. My folks were also prudent about the movies I could see. They had taken me to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs when I was six, and when the wicked queen turned into a hag and a skeleton crumbled into pieces, I burst into...
...these secular times, it is the state that claims, "Vengeance is mine," and insists on the sole right to decide what is just and to impose punishment. Any personal attempt at retribution is dismissed as vengeance, and vengeance is dismissed as psychotic, almost taboo. Yet as Susan Jacoby points out in her interesting book Wild Justice, vengeance comes to appear necessary when the state (or the gods) fails to provide justice...
Hersey constantly labors to depict Treadup's upbringing as devoid of the taboo-laden quasi-superstition rampant in much of early American Christianity. This is clearly an attempt to distance his hero from the outrages committed by many missionaries (and not just in China) in the name of God and civilization, and to say that even the best missionaries were destined to fail...