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...many scientists agree with University of California Psychologist David Krech, who insists that it is the difficulty involved in measuring racial differences, rather than any taboo, that is responsible for the lack of evidence that Shockley demands. In any such research, says Krech, there must be the fundamental assumption: "If all other conditions are equal." At present, he adds, there is no such situation between large groups of Negroes and whites in America...
Ethnic and racial humor, virtually taboo during the selfconsciously liberal years following World War II, is more acceptable than ever. The jokes are not the same as in the old vaudeville days, when they were based on the comic ignorance of the victim. The Rastus and Izzie jokes are gone. Today it is largely Jewish comedians who tell jokes about Jews, Negro comics about Negroes. Italian Comedian Pat Cooper (Pasquale Caputo) tells how his seven-year-old son asks what N.A.A.C.P. stands for. When he is told that it stands for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
...Taboo Subjects. Hemmed in by the crime and the cheesecake, though, there is some good, investigative reporting. It was Yugoslavia's tabloids that first reported indications of the Sino-Soviet split; they were also first to pick up rumblings of Mao's cultural revolution. They are openly proud of the fact that they are officially "uncensored." But they still know what subjects remain taboo. Usually those subjects involve Tito. The papers do not discuss his private life or his personality. Nor do they discuss his opponents. No paper has spoken up for Milovan Djilas, Tito's former...
Brown relates that there was a "spooky silence" as the menacing Africans gathered along the beach, but then as the boys catch the first wave and stand up, the Africans burst into reverent shrieks and shouts. The noise frightens the surfers, who fear they have violated some "tribal taboo" and are about to be pursued by natives "carrying the biggest forks they'd ever seen...
...than when she observed, "I like a man who takes his time." Later, the code's prohibition against "lustful embraces" did not stop Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr from wrestling all over a Hawaii beach in From Here to Eternity. And scarcely anybody paid any attention to the taboo against "explicit treatment of adultery...