Word: tabooing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Whenever a tanker enters a Libyan port, it is searched. If there is anything aboard that has been made or grown in Israel, the owner of the ship is fined or the vessel is seized. The Libyan government recently moved to new extremes, and so did Mobil. To the taboo list, the Libyan government added-and the company complied with-Jaffa orange juice canned in Norway or Canada and four products that have no Israeli connections at all: Brazilian beer and ginger ale, Trinidadian orange juice and Swedish matches. Reason: the labels of all four have six-pointed symbols vaguely...
...first, a selection from Frazer's Golden Bough, describes a mythic religion in which the priest-king, to gain his office, must slay the old priest-king, and then in turn be on his guard against his successor, who will slay him. The second, from Freud's Totem and Taboo, relates the phenomenon of the young men in the primal horde, who, after destroying the totem/father, whom they perceive as an obstacle to sexual fulfillment, feel guilt at the destructive act, and a resurgence of affection. From this springs the taboo against parricide, fratricide, and, eventually, murder in general. Miller...
...Taboo. In some of his advice, Spock veers from the traditional. He advises the boy who aches after petting because he has refrained from intercourse to "solve the problem by allowing or encouraging himself to have an orgasm." About young people who make an "arrangement" by living together, he writes: "If the idea is acceptable to them, it may be a responsible way to enter marriage...
...Spock offers teen-agers his translations of Freudian theory: Why are adolescents sometimes attracted to their own sex? Because "the taboo against interest in the opposite sex, which was so intense from about six to eleven years, can't be outgrown in a hurry." Why is an early infatuation so overwhelming? Often because the loved person looks or acts like a parent who was "loved so intensely in early childhood...
Belli told 200 people at the Harvard Law School Forum in Ames Courtroom that "We all come from the vaginal canal but after we become aware of it, it becomes a taboo subject...