Word: tabooed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Asians are villagers, and the village always bowed before the procession of imperial powers as before natural forces -taxed, conscripted, pillaged but holding fast to the status quo by totem and taboo. Karl Marx sneered at "these idyllic village communities" as stagnant and "subjugating man to external circumstances...
...WHRB, says Randy Webb '67, head of News, Sports, and Public Affairs at the station. The station doesn't want to give time to what he calls "little white boys playing Negro music." Following the image also means that commercials "with the Kingston Trio singing jingles," are taboo. Even in classical music, familiarity can bar a acceptable work from the WHRB list--something like Beethoven's Fifth is never heard on a regular show...
...thing they lacked was a sense of guilt, which, much to Moorehead's evident regret, was imported by missionaries along with a new taboo-against strong drink. It is nice to know, however, that when a latecomer called Charles Darwin offered a consolatory dram of booze to the muted inhabitants of what he called "the fallen paradise," they rose to the occasion with noble savagery. Gravely they put their fingers before their lips. Solemnly they uttered the word "missionary." But then they drank...
Today's humor may not be much rougher than it was on the American frontier, but it has shed its inhibitions in full public view. Sex is no longer a taboo topic; it is, in fact, one of the commonest. Humor has not only been firmly entrenched in the bedroom, but is increasingly being brought into the bathroom. Even caustic Cartoonist Jules Feiffer says: "It's astounding what's allowable today." The gentle comedies that once titillated the town have been replaced by such farces as What's New Pussycat? and Kiss Me, Stupid, in which...
...strength to fight or picket. The current favorite is the Polish joke, which ranges from harmless slap to unpleasant slur: Q. Why are there so few Polish suicides? A. It's not easy to get killed jumping from a basement apartment." The one subject that is strictly taboo right now is Viet Nam, says Jonathan Winters. Not that he need travel that far; Winters gets his laughs from way-out exaggerations of American types. Playing the farmer: "The Government pays me $25,000 just to watch the ground. Sometimes I think I would like to do some farming, just...