Word: tabooed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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People who want to deal with Russia and Bolshevism by the taboo method imply one or the other of two things: either their secret fear that the Russians are working out a superior system, or their conviction that the American people can't be trusted to tell right from wrong. The first of these ideas belittles democracy; the second denies it. HAZELTON SPENCEE...
...sparingly. But think of the utter chaos which would result from Phillips Brooks lighting a cheroot in Phillips Brooks House in the year 1917. No mild reproval or honey-worded request would be tendered him. Forcible ejection would be the only method of treatment. Tobacco is now taboo in Phillips Brooks, and it would be so even in the case of the Bishop. Time doth work many marvellous changes indeed...
...secret feeling is instilled into them that it is "not the thing to do." We do blame the upperclassmen who allow this feeling to take root. Whether or not they know it, they are continually setting the standards towards which new classes will strive, and what they taboo new students will taboo. Originality is not so prevalent as some may think and is frequently snubbed when met. And so it rests with the serious-minded upperclassmen, particularly the men who have made good in the College world, to most one of the last shreds of Harvard indifferences. If these...
...face the unconventional, for in 'The Great Divide' Mr. Moody handles situations from which our stage even a decade ago would have shrunk in timid trembling, and in the 'Faith Healer' he enters the field of religious belief, a subject, till within something like a decade, thoroughly taboo for our drama...