Word: tabooed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...immorality as vulgarly portrayed in the movie Facts of Life? European moviemakers can portray immorality with realism and thereby engender some soul searching. Facts of Life, in typical Hollywood fashion, features lewd innuendoes and lascivious smirks topped off by the subtle suggestion that this sort of affair is not taboo, just inconvenient...
...race, but that he can laugh, in a sort of brotherhood of humor, with white men about their own problems, can joke successfully about the N.A.A.C.P. as well as the P.T.A. Gregory's emergence suggests that there may be a relaxation in the longstanding, well-meant but dreary taboo against "racial" or "ethnic" humor, and that it is once again possible to tell a Jewish, Italian or Negro joke without being regarded as a bigot...
...reason. But some Protestant theologians, while far from accepting the classical Catholic version, are ready to underwrite natural law in some form. Reinhold Niebuhr denies the existence of natural law but concedes "certain laws, certain norms and degrees of universality'' (incest, for instance, is almost universally taboo...
...products threatened to spread from the West Indies to several Asian nations. In Europe, Sweden stopped buying South African fruit, and Lectrolite Products Ltd., big South African exporter of auto spare parts, fortnight ago advised the government export-promotion board that its products are now taboo in nine nations. Three weeks ago the delegates to the conference of African independent states at Addis Ababa voted unanimously to urge all emerging black governments to ban South African goods. The Nigerian government has already served notice that beginning next Oct. 1-its day of independence-no South African Airways planes will...
...further instance of empirical logic is indicated in the Levitical laws on taboo and hygiene. The speaker rejected the theory that the law prohibiting the eating of pork derived from pagan use of this animal in idol worship. He also doubted that one could ascribe theological-philosophical motives as discipline, development of group identity to the dietary laws at the time of their inception, though he acknowledged that they could be given a "theological-political treatment" in the post-Israelite period...