Word: tabooing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ballet was less accepted when I came to the U.S. with Ballet Russe in 1934. Strange restrictions were placed on male dancers then: tights were taboo in some parts of the country, and as late as 1950 male dancers had to wear knee-length jackets to appear...
...interviewing miners and investigating working and safety conditions. The Journal has run stories on how to press a Social Security black-lung claim; it has also uncovered and documented conflicts of interest by the general counsel of a rival organization, the Southern Labor Union. Last year it defied a taboo and printed the complete list of the U.M.W.'s contract demands for the membership before the union began its bargaining sessions with the coal operators. Most significantly, however, the Journal has taken to printing dissenting opinion in a "Rank & File Speaks" feature and the letters column. Says Joseph Rauh...
...with the number of anthropomorphic features it possesses." This is recognized by even the youngest children; they are generally the most levelheaded owners and associates of pets, whom they see as fraternal, adventurous and fallible allies, incapable (unlike parents) of scolding or punishing. As Freud noted in Totem and Taboo, children "feel themselves more akin to animals than to their elders." Old people, particularly those living alone, often depend on pets for the companionship and warmth denied them by human society. Some behaviorists argue that the mentally disturbed can be helped by animals -"seeing-heart dogs," in one psychologist...
...wavering Republicans and other undecided members of the House in the coming weeks. At the same time, they plan to shift the fight against impeachment to political grounds, trying to focus attention on Nixon's accomplishments, particularly in the area of foreign policy. Arm twisting will be taboo. Explained one Nixon supporter: "It's counterproductive." Other White House aides, notably Buchanan and Clawson, will attempt to communicate the same line to the public, while Presidential Aide William J. Baroody Jr. will work with pro-Nixon organizations like Rabbi Baruch Korff's National Citizens' Committee for Fairness...
...Mill write On Liberty when he did? Contrary to still-popular opinion, Victorian England was far from a world of class suppression and psychological repression. The established church had slipped in moral authority. Even sex was under a less terrible taboo than has sometimes been assumed. That has been proven by recent explorations of the pervasiveness of Victorian pornography (albeit hidden). Mill was preaching liberty to the converted, Hirnmelfarb argues, except in the area of women's liberation. In his essay The Subjection of Women, Mill protested that "the social subordination of women" stood out as "an isolated fact...