Word: tabooed
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...Those are the worst hours," she says. "To pity him: wrong. To try to calm him: wrong. If he fumes, he wants you to fume with him. There is nothing you can do, really. Certain subjects are taboo at these times?anything upsetting, anything about his pieces for that day. Even remarking that he's never made a mistake in one of them. If you say that, he will...
...Taboo. In one of the biggest battles yet mounted by U.S. forces, paratroopers and helicopter-borne troops of the elite 173rd Airborne Brigade plunged into eight hours of furious hand-to-hand combat with screaming, cymbal-clashing Viet Cong guerrillas 30 miles northeast of Saigon. The toll of Red dead may have reached 600. Three days later, in jungles controlled by the Communists for 20 years, a battalion of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division repelled scores of attacking Viet Cong, killed at least 150 before the assault was broken. At the coastal town of Chu Lai, U.S. Marines, backed...
...HOPE HE DOESN'T MARRY A GENTILE." Marriage to a non-Jew is a traditional taboo. Today, in the eyes of most Jewish parents, and particularly grandparents, intermarriage is still something of a calamity. The desire to curb mixed dating partly accounts for the "5 o'clock shadow" that falls on interfaith group activities. But all surveys indicate that intermarriage is rising. A study of Washington's Jewish community (81,000) broke down the rate of intermarrying Jewish men by generations: 1.4% for the foreign-born, 10.2% for the first generation of American-born...
...Memorial Drive" perfectly ilustrate this. "Citizens' Committee:" an image of public spirited opposition, the common man. "Emergency:" connoting the burying of petty hostilities and a rushing to rally around the cause. "Saving:" an appeal to the New England tradition thrift. And oven the word "Memorial:" a suggestion of the taboo on violating the sanctity of the dead...
...bill authorizes the spending of $1.3 billion-a relatively small sum considering the fact that public education in the U.S. is an annual $34 billion business. The real breakthrough lies in the fact that the Federal Government has overcome a longstanding taboo and become a full-scale partner in grade-school education, both public and private. Thomas Braden, chairman of California's State Board of Education, sums it up this way: "With the rapid moving of families in our nation, the interlocking economy, the sense of a national community, it is archaic to think that education...