Word: tabooed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even before newspapers headlined Cárdenas' refusal to comment, a farm credit union official hailed Flores' words: "At last a top-ranking official has publicly recognized failure in the ejidal system, which has so long seemed to be taboo, and on whose altars truth and justice have so often been sacrificed." Then up spoke a Congressman: "We have been inhibited too long by fear of being called reactionaries for talking of problems like this. Now what is needed are solutions that will make Yucatáán as well as other depressed areas of our country truly...
...happily strip in public, that may be because, as 23-year-old Novelist Elisabeth Trévol puts it: "We are afraid to write a woman's book, so we try to deepen our voices. We discover how easy and amusing it is to talk of things 'taboo.' That shamelessness is a bit forced." But the majority of the women novelists, even the beginners, are sure-handed craftswomen. The best of them do not trade on their femininity, want to be judged as writers. Says Dominique Aubier, a perceptive lady critic and novelist: "The book arrives alone...
Leviticus Says No. He tells the story, wittily and well, by putting the problem of ethics on a kind of analyst's couch and dredging up its troubled case history. The childhood of ethics, in the Russell view, is taboo. Taboo morality is a strict black-and-white affair filled with dread and sanctions, the ethics of primitive...
...Taboo lingers on, Russell feels, in the popular objections to euthanasia and birth control. Russell asks: "Suppose atomic bombs had reduced the population of the world to one brother and sister; should they let the human race die out? I do not know the answer, but I do not think H can be in the affirmative merely on the ground that incest is wicked." The problem of ethics grows as it is touched by religion. Biblical authority, says Russell, is sometimes contradictory: "Should a childless widow marry her deceased husband's brother? Leviticus says no, Deuteronomy says yes (Leviticus...
...Kraft TV Theater production of Time of the Drought violated a long-standing taboo by cheerfully portraying a village freethinker who was at his happiest mocking the beliefs of his neighbors and making life miserable for the new minister. What was more impressive, he stayed consistent throughout and was even given the play's last, defiant line. Ed Begley was brilliant as the cranky iconoclast who stuck to his principles in the face of overwhelming Christian charity and forgiveness on the part of his fellow men, while Joe Maross made a believable young preacher who was both uncertain...