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...seems logical that any new living space opened up would attract students who wish to room with new friends outside their present House. Normally, inter-House shifting is taboo, and Wigg and Claverly offer but a minimum of relief (and Wigg will be all-freshman next year anyway). Moving to any new House also offers a tactful excuse for leaving present roommates and escaping tensions. "There's always a push and a pull in these moves," Riesman hays, "and the roommate situation may well be either...
...Morbid. Even worse is what charity audiences do not want to be shown. Last season The Entertainer with Laurence Olivier went untouched by charity groups-it was "English and too depressing." Also taboo: Shakespeare, anything "controversial" or avantgarde...
...noble experiment by opening its virginal pages to liquor ads. As if this were not enough, the full scope of the industry's schemes was exposed at the recent meeting of the Distilled Spirits Institute. Here, an unidentified source disclosed that the industry may soon end the taboo on women appearing in its advertising...
With homosexuality in Britain a matter of government concern and wide-open public discussion (TIME, Dec. 16). the once-taboo subject got a whirl in last week's British Medical Journal. First difficulty, reported a three-man research team which had worked at Bristol Mental Hospitals, is to find out just what a homosexual is. So the Bristol psychiatrists went to nearby prisons, got 64 volunteer subjects, aged 20 to 61, doing time for unnatural acts. The researchers exploded a lot of widespread fallacies: CJ Even among prison cases, homosexuality is no all-or-nothing quality. Only nine...
...general solicitation of funds for the crew is possible. The University has, however, allowed the Friends of Harvard Rowing to give its support to this specific money-raising effort. Viggo C. Bertelsen '58, captain of this year's crew, noted that the University has in the past placed a taboo on outside solicitations for particular sports projects...