Word: tabooed
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Ethel Mannin, blurtaceous English novelist (Sounding Brass, South to Samarkand), deplored as "stupid and cruel" the taboo against unmarried mothers. Said she, to the London Society for Sex Education and Guidance:* "A child can't be legal or illegal. It's there...
...mention for the excellent job it is doing in salvaging the best from the terrestrial, the aquatic, the aerial, and the arboreal boiling pot of world news. TIME also deserves much credit for fostering a democratic exchange of ideas at a period when broad and tolerant ideas apparently seem taboo. But still greater praise should be given TIME for maintaining a sense of humor in reporting matters of utmost concern and gravity, for in times like these God himself must surely possess a sense of humor in order to endure some of the stupid statements and unintelligent actions which...
...Hitler at the present time is surrounded for the greater part by members of the Wehrmacht. He lives among these men on the Obersalzberg at Berchtesgaden. He seldom sees Goring, Goebbels and Himmler. In Hitler's house nowadays certain subjects are taboo; for instance, that of total war and its victims...
Strike Out Strike. For years the Bulletin was slow to recognize organized labor (the word strike was long taboo in its columns). When the engravers' union became so strong it had to be dealt with, the Bulletin set up a separate engraving company. To this day this company, in an adjoining building, sends the Bulletin's cuts over in a conveyor...
...face of all convention by writing about Russia at all, they are content to abandon as irrelevant all considerations of artistic merit. They are introducing Russia to the American people; that's enough to justify "Mission to Moscow" and "The North Star." That Russia is no longer taboo in the drawing rooms, and that the more conservative journals discuss thte Red Army quite freely, seems to have escaped them...