Word: tabooed
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...while he was still wed to his first wife. Queen Elizabeth, the temporal head of the Church of England, made a concession to the more relaxed morality by deciding to give him royal permission to marry the woman. Even Parliament now eagerly delves into areas that were formerly taboo. Three weeks ago, Commons passed a bill legalizing homosexual acts in private between consenting adults, and two weeks ago it followed that up with another bill liberalizing the grounds for abortion. Last week a government committee studying the question of lowering the age of majority from 21 to 18 years could...
...McCarthy, and culturally to that of television, both of which forced the motion picture industry to compete almost exclusively for an audience it had previously sought to resist. The results of this competition were fast and unmistakable: genres rose overnight to replace the social problems that were now taboo. Foreign settings, both in time and place, took over when it became impossible to face the present forcefully. Hacks were rampant...
There is an absolute taboo against socializing alone with the customer after dark, although the ladies are allowed to go out with a group of clients. Even then, the restrictions are so straitlaced that they stifle hopes for amour - or even for an evening of routine high life. "No nightclubs, no bars, no discothèques," says the Countess de la Rochefoucauld, and the girls, many of them young-marrieds, religiously obey...
Strenuous or dangerous sports were taboo in traditional China. The notion of legal litigation is distasteful, a fact reflected in proverbs like: "Win your law suit and lose your money." Life is regulated more by custom than by law. The ideal demands that disputes be settled by mediation and compromise. "The Chinese people love compromise," said Lu Hsün, a satirist who died in 1936. "If you say to them," This room is too dark, we must have a window made,' they will oppose you. But if you say, 'Let's take off the roof...
...crops, the growers could not care less. A beneficent government has always stepped in to buy and store the huge excess. But such generosity is coming to an end. With $70 million in government backing, Brazilian Coffee Institute President Leonidas Borio has pioneered a campaign to "break the old taboo that only coffee is important." More with Less. Under the plan, growers are being offered up to 220 for each of Brazil's 3.7 billion coffee trees that they plow under. The idea is to cut production back by 20% to match what Brazil really needs for exports...