Word: taboos
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...child's hand reaches out tentatively. Years of haranguing ("Keep your greasy fingers off the TV!") have made the screen taboo. But when the child sees that his finger causes the image to change, learns that his touch magically provokes new pictures, sequences, words and diagrams, his hand begins to jab, rub and slap the screen. Curiosity, once aroused, is satisfied by simply touching a picture of what one wants to understand. This process is re-enacted thousands of times every day at the U.S. Pavilion at Energy Expo '82 (a.k.a. the Knoxville, Tenn., World's Fair...
ALMOST immediately, the word "incest" brings to mind the word "taboo." American society, like most others, has strong cultural and legal prohibitions against sex between members of the nuclear family. No one likes to talk about incest, but the ugly truth is that men sexually abuse their own daughters far more commonly than most people would guess. Mother-son incest is nearly non-existent by comparison. By writing Father-Daughter Incest. Judith Lewis Herman proposes a solution. In effect, she says for the crimes to end, the facts must be known...
...been proven that numerous persons are detained without having benefitted from any form of legal procedure, and without having access to an attorney. It may be said that freedom of inquiry, opinion, speech and dissemination of thought does not exist. There are taboo questions which cannot be discussed such as all matters concerning the President's family, the dictatorship the extra-budgetary revenues of the Regie du Tabac [state-controlled tobacco industry] etc. There is recourse to procedures such as warnings and admonitions of increasing severity to journalists, issued by the Ministry of the Interior, there is also prior censor...
...feel inestimably uncomfortable writing about religion in these pages: it is as close to a taboo subject as there is in this community. But Boff describes Jesus at one place as the "omega point" of evolution--a goal to be aimed at, though not achieved. I don't know; my journey is only recently begun in earnest and may yet be sidetracked or derailed. But if Graham's eloquent example proves nothing else, it is that such a goal must at least be considered...
...convinced that it is ignorance that has placed the taboo on abortion, a taboo which prohibits the admission of it and even the discussion of it. Ignorance breeds nothing less fearsome than fear. And abortion is not something to be feared...