Word: tabooed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With homosexuality in Britain a matter of government concern and wide-open public discussion (TIME, Dec. 16). the once-taboo subject got a whirl in last week's British Medical Journal. First difficulty, reported a three-man research team which had worked at Bristol Mental Hospitals, is to find out just what a homosexual is. So the Bristol psychiatrists went to nearby prisons, got 64 volunteer subjects, aged 20 to 61, doing time for unnatural acts. The researchers exploded a lot of widespread fallacies: CJ Even among prison cases, homosexuality is no all-or-nothing quality. Only nine...
...general solicitation of funds for the crew is possible. The University has, however, allowed the Friends of Harvard Rowing to give its support to this specific money-raising effort. Viggo C. Bertelsen '58, captain of this year's crew, noted that the University has in the past placed a taboo on outside solicitations for particular sports projects...
PERHAPS the touchiest and most taboo-ridden major problem facing big-city governments in the U.S. is the high crime rate among Negroes. Probing into the subject, TIME correspondents found city politicians evasive, police officials wary, Negro leaders defensive. But as the facts piled up, it was plain that the curtain of evasion conceals a social illness of disturbing scope. For a report on the problem and its causes, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Negro Crime Rate: A Failure in Integration...
Foreign films are trickling in, but none from the U.S. Gina Lollobrigida is a hot favorite. Moscow saw some nudes this year-and was shocked. Love scenes are permitted in movies, and kissing even takes place on the stage, something taboo in Stalin's day. Recordings of American jazz bring bizarre prices on the black market, as much as $100 for a single record...
...were 60 anatomically accurate, full-colored models of all the human organs commonly invaded by cancer, showing them in the grip of its malignant growth. There were, besides, all the stainless-steel instruments with which doctors probe for cancer, or cut it out when they find it. Nothing was taboo: the cervix of the womb was shown lifesize. There was even a jar containing a malformed fetus in a cancerous womb...