Word: tabooing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...events at the rally and subsequent statements by Ebert--including a letter to 118 medical school deans calling Davis irresponsible--threatened Davis's academic freedom. Davis himself believes academic freedom is now the prime issue at stake. "The message seems to be," he says, "if you violate the taboo on public discussion of this subject you need not only risk misunderstanding but you risk excommunication. If such a policy is allowed to prevail in our universities what will be its effect on the future of free inquiry and of dedication to excellence...
...twelve years since that scene, divorce has become widespread, almost common. Last year U.S. divorces exceeded 1 million for the first time. It is thus interesting, but hardly surprising, that divorce is no longer a taboo and has virtually vanished as an issue in national politics. No one could care less whether Betty Ford was divorced from her first husband before she married Jerry (nor whether the President's former rival, Ronald Reagan, got a divorce and remarried). And without more than a momentary pause, Ford and his advisers put Robert Dole on the ticket even though...
...needs to feel great hostility in order to play hard, but whose conscience tells him that hostility is a bad thing. The woman?these days she is usually over 35?for whom beating her husband or trying to win at all may be a deep and sensitive taboo. Many women admit that they want to win, but feel "I'm being mean" when they do. Gallwey, for example, has watched superior women players breeze into a 5-1 or 5-2 score over their husbands, only to find themselves unable to put the set away by winning the sixth...
...since 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The Black Cauldron, still in the treatment-writing stages, is about a pig keeper's struggle with a villain whose shtick is regenerating an army of warriors from dead bodies-a long way from Poppins. Sex and excessive violence still are taboo on the Disney lot, but Walker foresees increased sophistication as younger animators reflect contemporary themes...
...Another new trend is toward the realistic documentation of World War II. Advance into the Pacific made use of combat footage shot by both American and Japanese cameramen. Hero in the Sky, a film about one of Japan's greatest wartime aces, may end up violating the postwar taboo on celebrating Japanese feats...