Word: tabooed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bookishness. The world of modern education, as Smith found it, is one in which drill and discipline are taboo, and teachers have become abnormally afraid of boring pupils or straining their abilities. In worrying about such matters, they have long belittled what they call "verbal intelligence" and "bookishness," forgetting that "by far the greater part of man's wisdom is stored up in books...
Actress Madeleine Carroll crashed the taboo against women in Lamont Library yesterday when she visited it to tell an overflow audience in the Forum Room how much she hated Hollywood...
...that "touching wood" signifies touching the Holy Cross for protection; others look still further back into the past and see it as an invocation of tree spirits. A ladder leaning against a wall forms a triangle, which is inviolable for the same reason that makes "three on a match" taboo: both represent the Trinity...
...Much Taboo...
Pulp trash you say. But this is not entirely true. Wylie is consistently entertaining and his basic point that modern civilization completely ignores the instinctual nature of man (by building up a great taboo structure around sex relations, for example) is well taken. The various diatribes in which he elaborates on this central this are mostly accurate and uniformly provocative...