Word: tabooed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...woman," he says. Morris fobs him off with a pen pal ("18 years old and well-developed") to whom Morris will write. When the girl, who is white, promises to appear, each brother panics for opposing reasons. Zach yearns for the girl, but he dares not violate the racial taboo, and must violate his feelings instead. Morris is tempted to meet the girl, except that he has passed for white before and knows the self-loathing he felt at the ugly pleasure of renouncing the black within him, and spurning the blacks around...
...bottom. He banned opium smoking, and when a rash of fires broke out in Bangkok's business district one winter, he ordered four Chinese merchants shot-a brutal but effective reminder that the annual custom of burning shops to collect insurance for the Chinese New Year was now taboo...
Burr B, with its staid academic blackboards, was an ideal arena for Goodman's irreverence. He swore freely, in Manhattan monotone, and looked up in blank surprise at the reactions he evoked. What words are taboo among confidential friends? He opened himself to the audience, it seemed, confiding his bisexuality, his extra-marital philandering: "I am very sexy," he told us. He reassured the skeptics with benevolent ridicule: "So she gets pregnant," he conceded with a friendly grin. "So what's so terrible...
...Hats are taboo," it also states, "except for Oliver caps and deer stalkers," items apparently familiar to clothes retailers...
...Twists. To this issue Mailer adds two individual twists of his own. He rages against those prosperous Negroes who elect to imitate the culture of the white bourgeoisie (though why this right should be denied them is not explained). He is willing to enter the taboo field of racial intermarriage, and here goes on record as having personally invited James Baldwin to marry his (Mailer's) sister...