Word: tabooed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other tunes are taboo...
...Americanism." Last week the same teacher might have been at a summer seminar learning how best to present Communist history and theory to his twelfth-graders next fall. Growing up to the cold realities of the cold war, Americans have undergone a complete reversal of opinion on the formerly taboo subject of teaching about Communism in the schools...
Engineers of Souls. Though incomparably better off than their elders, young Russians today ask far more of their life and are more critical of its shortcomings than any previous generation. Youth is reaching out beyond Mother Russia for its styles and slang. "Decadent" tastes that were taboo under Stalin are now status symbols. Young educated Russians are hungry for abstract art, passionately addicted to jazz, universally smitten with Ernest Hemingway and J. D. Salinger (they can read these authors in translation, but see no newspapers except Communist ones). Soviet movies such as The Cranes Are Flying sympathetically explore their conflicts...
First, my talk was not concerned with research on psilocybin or related drugs or with the effects of taking such drugs. Anyone who heard my talk knows, of course, that I am not against drug research or against the exploration of the new, the unknown, and the taboo. My talk was not concerned with that at all, but rather with graduate education in psychology and the effects of the Psilocybin Program on our graduate training...
...information, not an attack on the critic. A common and rather tiresome tactic is the substitution of a diagnosis of the critic's motives for the provision of answers to his questions. We are so often assured that a critic's questions stem from his own emotional reactions to taboo areas, that it becomes impossible to get sensible discussion on these topics. Where there are serious questions to be asked, it should be possible to provide answers...