Word: tabooed
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Headmaster Bonner got his big idea during the War when, at high-pressure Plattsburg Officers Training Camp, he was polished as an officer in three months, simply by concentration. But militaristic regimentation is taboo at Redding Ridge. Boys are encouraged to swim, play tennis and golf, sports which they will enjoy later in life. (Mr. Bonner wryly admits he would have had trouble developing a football team with five boys...
...Netherlands Government recently notified the U. S. Post Office Department that Dutch Guiana would hereafter be called only Surinam. Other changes: Dutch East Indies to Netherlands Indies, the Dutch West Indies to Curacao. The word "Dutch" has long been taboo in The Netherlands...
...radio field. Of its 74-odd weekly hours of broadcasting about 63 are devoted to music, 40 of them to symphonic and other serious compositions, 17 to light classics, six to popular tunes. Swing bands, comedians, amateur hours and similar big drawing cards of the larger stations are taboo on WQXR...
...writer, when his faithful disciple, Dr. Abraham Arden Brill, brought out a handy, 1,001-page collection of six of his major works. The demonstration was not quite fair to Freud. For Dr. Brill included as Freud's basic writing heavy, abstract works like his Totem and Taboo, which is an important contribution to psychoanalytic theory, but hard reading for laymen. He left out such Freudian classics as The Case of Miss Elisabeth R, and The Case of Miss Lucy R. These early works of Freud, simply and artfully written, revealing an extraordinary grasp of character and a lightning...
...that nasty article about "Taboo Words" [TIME, May 2] was "newsworthy," I'm a Chinaman...