Word: tabooed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Totem & Taboo. For his latest and most lavish book Covarrubias (and his Los Angeles-born wife Rose) worked on & off for six years. He first went to the isthmus in the early '20s, when it was still possible to find the Tehuantepec River filled twice daily with naked bathers splashing unselfconsciously in the brown waters. Since then he has visited the country almost every year, sketching the handsome tehuanas with their vivid costumes, necklaces of $20 gold pieces, and spectacular headloads of fruit and flowers. He has collected tribal jadeite masks and jaguar figurines, has painted the giant ancient...
...side has the Chinese translation, Go Ho Ping, meaning Hope For Peace, which causes many high & low folk to remark: "Very nice name"); one pen, one pencil, one penknife, one passport, two car keys; one inoculation certificate showing 14 original shots plus regular boosters, minus which air travel is taboo; one Chinese Government certificate of registration as a correspondent; about 30,000 dollars Chinese, which is the equivalent of a double-size stuffed wallet and worth about $10 U.S. (when carrying more Chinese dollars I must bring an overnight bag or briefcase along); one piece of string to keep currency...
...interested in having them used for nonprofitable study. Meanwhile, he vigorously runs down and prosecutes "pirates." A few old Chaplin comedies made for Keystone, Essanay and Mutual studios are being shown to Museum visitors, but post-1918 Chaplin-produced pictures (including Shoulder Arms and The Kid) are taboo...
Little Slips. One of the few signs of Russian interference in Finland today is a mild press censorship administered by Leino, who informs newspapers ("by little slips of paper," as one editor put it) what subjects are taboo. The principal forbidden subject is criticism of Russia...
...first time since 1940, U.S. physicists could talk about atomic fission without looking over their shoulders. The subject of The Bomb itself was taboo at the annual midwest meeting of the American Physical Society in Chicago; but there was plenty more for the atomic scientists to talk about...