Word: taboo
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Word did not get around that forward passing his taboo in the game of Rugby. Word also did not get around that most of Harvard's other first-stringers were in Cambridge nursing broken noses and separated shoulders...
Hollywood rarely approaches bullfighting on its own terms. Most Americans do not understand the spectacle, and the Production Code's taboo on scenes of cruelty to animals makes it a difficult subject to film. This week two new bullfighting movies entered the ring...
...Nieman Fellows reeled for a while this year as professor after professor, throw at them: "vis-a-vis this problem," and "vis-a-vis" that one. The phrase is taboo in every city room in the country--the peasants might not understand it. But as the year went on, and editors and publishers made evening talks to the group, it seems that the editors themselves are promoting this sort of thing. A quiet poll shows that Frank J. Starzel, general manager of The Associated Press, said vis-a-vis at 8:23 p.m., Carroll Binder, of the Minneapolis Tribune...
...authers of the freshman guidebook take a strong stand against untidiness. Smoking on the street and blue jeans are taboo, they warn. They rhapsodize the beauties of Radcliffe, but swoop swiftly to earth again, thusly: "Ivy walls notwithstanding, Radcliffe is an urban college. Radcliffe in the spring is lovely. The apple tree is in full bloom and the grass is green and inviting. But the Radcliffe Yard is not Coney Island. Don't sprawl about; even exam period is not an excuse for unladylike behavior...
Suicide & Sex. Most of Hollywood's taboos center around the self-imposed Industry Production Code. Just as Melanesians have elaborate taboos against incest (punishable by death), so does Hollywood have an equally important taboo against "any reference to the biological nature of man or other animals." Violators are not killed, but are refused the Code's seal of approval, "a form of business suicide." Moviemakers continually revolve in a vicious circle with the Code office minutely censoring "dialogue for suggestions of sex while the studios continue to accent the sexiness of their stars...