Word: tabooed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...female. "Hypocrites and doctrinaires and art administrators have tried with enviable success to drive this undying motif, which inspired so many great realists, from the sphere of painting in Socialist realism as 'immoral.' Glazunov cannot but be praised for the boldness with which he broke this stupid taboo and brought back to art an earthy delight and poetry of feeling." As a followup, Moscow Radio's English broadcast quoted Critic Anatoly Chlemov deploring the view that "just about the only subject [is] the portrayal and glorification of Stalin," and hailing the fact that "the beauty...
...down absenteeism, how to improve highway signs) is presented, and everyone storms ahead. No idea is too fantastic; a cardinal rule is that no one laughs at an idea. If anyone is thoughtless enough to say "It won't work," he is sternly reminded that such remarks are taboo by the chief brainstormer. who clangs a schoolmarm's bell at him. Anyone is free to "hitchhike" on an idea, i.e., pick it up and improve on it. The result is usually that anywhere from 60 to 150 rapid-fire ideas are suggested. The vast majority are usually...
...this sort of briefing for the Carnival date. "Sleep. Do it all before you arrive 'cause those strong, starved outdoorsmen as well as tweedy, pudgy pals have so much on your agenda, and so much stamina to back it up with that sleeping is practically forbidden, almost taboo, and don't suggest it to your date under any conditions ... Dartmouth Men are proud, husky men who like a lot of fun. Remember that...
...book is a call for action, it is also another person. When we bring ourselves to the book we must offer our intelligence to the book. Orthodoxies, preconceptions, inhibitions, are all taboo if you would read...
...show comes the overall impression that the only thing taboo in Joán Miró's weird world of pixilated fantasy and around the kiln in Barcelona is a deficient sense of humor...