Word: tabooed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these secular times, it is the state that claims, "Vengeance is mine," and insists on the sole right to decide what is just and to impose punishment. Any personal attempt at retribution is dismissed as vengeance, and vengeance is dismissed as psychotic, almost taboo. Yet as Susan Jacoby points out in her interesting book Wild Justice, vengeance comes to appear necessary when the state (or the gods) fails to provide justice...
Hersey constantly labors to depict Treadup's upbringing as devoid of the taboo-laden quasi-superstition rampant in much of early American Christianity. This is clearly an attempt to distance his hero from the outrages committed by many missionaries (and not just in China) in the name of God and civilization, and to say that even the best missionaries were destined to fail...
Ginbergian madness, his gropings for an angry fix and everything else that was taboo about the Beat generation weave themselves throughout this voluminous collection. The hemophobic and conservative will scurry from much of this poetry because Ginsberg describes in graphic detail his homosexual experiences and names a number of his poems after the illegal drugs he uses while writing them: "Mescaline," Lysergic Acid...
...nobody. Certainly not Honig, though his voice has been one of the loudest and most persistent calling for textbook reform. In his own state, below fifth grade a zoo story may not include such words as beaver, parrot, goat - and zoo. A California anti-junk-food lobby's taboo still limits references to ice cream, cake and pie. "I'm all for good eating," says Illinois Reading Specialist Jean Osborn, "but for a child in a story not to be able to have a birthday cake...
Despite the proliferation of explicit sexual themes in entertainment programming and commercials on television, ads for birth control devices are still considered taboo. While all three major networks refused to show the Today commercials, the ads will be running on 34 stations, some of them network affiliates, in 14 cities by next week. VLI decided to try local TV advertising after receiving mostly favorable reactions to a series of radio ads it started last summer. The company says that product inquiries have doubled since the advertising campaigns began...