Word: taboo
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Tragedy, love, passion, characterization, sentimentality, were taboo; "scale and violence" were all that most of the native plays had, and about all that were left of foreign plays, once they were adapted. "Hamlet was played for the murder, the ghost, the burial; Macbeth for the witches, the sleepwalking scene, the knocking at the gate." Some plays "were hardly plays at all but omnibus inclusions of the latest news, the latest partisan arguments." The drama was half operatic, exceedingly oratorical, and stagy oratory was perhaps the greatest and most popular of the arts...
...Sabotage, for the first time in any U.S. war, is classified as a military secret. Whether this far-from-clarified taboo serves to withhold "aid & comfort" from the enemy is debatable, but it has succeeded in creating the erroneous impression that sabotage in this war, unlike World War I, is virtually nonexistent...
...Dayton correspondents were allowed to describe in detail a .50-caliber machine gun. Two days later, at an ordnance plant, no mention was allowed of the caliber of cartridges for these same guns. In two other plants mention of the guns' caliber became taboo...
...Long Armistice. During "the Long Armistice" between World Wars I & II, Author Tabouis broke the taboo that kept French women out of journalism, became League of Nations correspondent for two powerful provincial papers. She arrived for the fifth annual session, together with President Herriot, Gustav Stresemann, Ramsay MacDonald. Said one diplomat: "It is just like Deauville during the summer season...
...respectively, the social, economic and political problems of the post-war world and the problem of the church's own position in that world.* Discussion waxed hot & heavy, with one notable silence: in a week when the Japs were taking Java, discussion of the war itself was practically taboo. Reason: The Federal Council felt that, since five of its other commissions are directly connected with the war effort, the conference's concern should be with plans for peace. One war statement -"the Christian Church as such is not at war" -was proposed by Editor Charles Clayton Morrison...