Word: tabooed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Taboo. Editor Leonard Zweig, 36, ransacks the scholarly journals and attends all the social-science conventions in a constant search for ideas that can be turned into Transaction articles. Since social scientists have a habit of talking in professional jargon and burying their leads somewhere in the middle of their stories, Zweig has to edit heavily. But there are few complaints. Wrote Raoul Naroll, professor of anthropology, sociology and political science at Northwestern University: "It is startling to see some of my thoughts coming back to me in plain English...
Editor Zweig has only one taboo: he refuses to run any articles with an ideological ax to grind. "Readers can take our ideas and fit them into their own ideologies," he says. "We are in the rationality business...
...roughing up Chinese in foreign dress, ordering shopkeepers to stop selling books except those that reflect Mao's thinking and to rid themselves of imported articles or luxury items. In the place of cosmetics, ordinary floor-scrubbing soap was put on sale for facial care. Also on the taboo list: goldfish, exotic birds, flowers, antiques, elaborate coffins, signs with gilded instead of red lettering, and jewelry...
...since 1890. Anglo-Saxon tradition knew only two meals-breakfast and dinner-and in the 16th century, dinner was eaten at 11 a.m. While discussing diets, the rabbi rejects the notion that the Jewish and Moslem prohibition against pork started because of fear of food poisoning. The pig was taboo from earliest times because it was worshiped by primitive peoples who also sacrificed it to their idols and ate it in sacred meals. This made Jews, in their passion for monotheism, reject...
...controversy whipped up by Rainy Day Women in recent weeks has caused disk jockeys to comb through lyrics like cryptographers. What they have found is a spate of new songs dealing with all kinds of taboo topics, many of which, veiled in hip teen talk or garbled in the din of guitars, are being regularly aired over the radio. POP MUSIC'S 'MORAL CRISIS,' screamed the front-page headline in Variety recently; Dylan discipes countered by adopting a line from his new Ballad of a Thin Man as their nose-thumbing rallying cry: "Something is happening here...