Word: taboo
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PERHAPS the touchiest and most taboo-ridden major problem facing big-city governments in the U.S. is the high crime rate among Negroes. Probing into the subject, TIME correspondents found city politicians evasive, police officials wary, Negro leaders defensive. But as the facts piled up, it was plain that the curtain of evasion conceals a social illness of disturbing scope. For a report on the problem and its causes, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Negro Crime Rate: A Failure in Integration...
Foreign films are trickling in, but none from the U.S. Gina Lollobrigida is a hot favorite. Moscow saw some nudes this year-and was shocked. Love scenes are permitted in movies, and kissing even takes place on the stage, something taboo in Stalin's day. Recordings of American jazz bring bizarre prices on the black market, as much as $100 for a single record...
...were 60 anatomically accurate, full-colored models of all the human organs commonly invaded by cancer, showing them in the grip of its malignant growth. There were, besides, all the stainless-steel instruments with which doctors probe for cancer, or cut it out when they find it. Nothing was taboo: the cervix of the womb was shown lifesize. There was even a jar containing a malformed fetus in a cancerous womb...
...Manhattan to ballyhoo the film version of his often-belittled, sometime-banned (still taboo in Massachusetts) bestselling (more than 8,000,000 copies) novel, God's Little Acre, earthy Novelist Erskine Caldwell hopscotched between TV appearances, radio talks and press interviews. Once an oversexed tale about Georgia crackers, the tidied-up movie version will glow with the Motion Picture Association of America's seal of purity. Says onetime Georgia Cracker Caldwell: "Why not? It's a family picture...
Under gentle, scholarly Spike Canham, the Monitor has shucked many of its old customs, become lighter and brighter. Of late it has run stories about such long-taboo topics as organized crime, prostitution and homosexuality, not infrequently reports that a person has died rather than "passed on"-a sharp departure from World War I days when, it is related, a hard-pressed correspondent, described a battlefield littered with "passed-on mules." When it comes to profit, the Monitor has netted only $260 in the past 15 years; it firmly excludes a long list of advertisers it does not condone...