Word: tabooed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program of voluntary emasculation, feels Denmark is effectively treating sex criminals instead of punishing them, points to some statistics: in Denmark only 3.7% of voluntarily castrated sex criminals repeat their crimes as compared to 43% of the uncastrated. He considers the U.S. attitude a childish and hypocritical taboo. "In America," he says, "a surgeon can operate on any organ in the body, including the brain. But he may not operate on the testes. That is a hypocrisy which the mature society of Denmark refuses to accept." How will the Jorgensen case affect the future treatment of transvestites? In Denmark there...
Battle technique is simple soak the other guy. Fights have so far been confined indoors. Fighting outside is taboo, particularly when its raining (or snowing)--the idea is to bring the wet inside. Water bombs are out, since the more refined pistol shooters claim the bomb thrower has an unfair advantage...
...people who come to the President of the U.S. to have to walk through lobbies or offices where the secretaries are bunched around smoking. What it boils down to is that a smoke alone at a desk is tolerable, but smokes in a cluster around any one desk are taboo...
...another sort of cause. Three months ago Brooklyn Lawyer Arthur Levitt, a member of New York City's school board, proposed that New York schoolchildren sing parts of Smith's anthem at the start of each day. Up until then the mention of God had been practically taboo in the public schools, and Levitt had offered his idea as a substitute for a regular morning prayer, to which secular groups strenuously objected. Last week after months of worried debate, the school board made the proposal official. Henceforth, each morning, New York City's pupils will at last...
...years, the University's maids have wandered in and out of the private lives of Harvard men. Patiently tidying what they knew would soon be a mess again, they have seen students in their most ramshackle state, and have become necessities in places where other women are taboo...