Word: taboos
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...should be: If one believes that nuclear war is unwinnable, then no defensive measures against it make sense. We must adopt the attitude of saying, "Nuclear war is indeed a nightmare, but prudence requires that we face its possibility." I compare it to cancer, which used to be a taboo word. People were afraid to mention it lest they bring it about. Of course, cancer is a horror, but it exists all around us, as do nuclear weapons. Now we face cancer. And we cure a lot of cancer because of that. Nuclear weapons are a kind of international cancer...
...being held will be released. Some Egyptians have observed that the country seems freer now than it has in years, though it is still under a state of emergency. Cairo newspapers, tightly controlled during the Sadat era, have begun cautiously printing articles about government corruption and other once taboo subjects...
Fritz is the child of affluent parents, the Ordinary People of Zurich. At home there are no arguments, no problems. About matters of taste, there is no dispute: his parents are always right. Questions concerning money, love, sex, religion and politics are taboo. The child is never allowed to see that the world is not perfect. Yet his life is colored by a pervasive sadness: "We did nothing and said nothing and fought for nothing and had no opinions and spent our time being amused by other people who were ridiculous enough to do, say, or think something...
...whole absurd structure was bound to collapse, and it did. When the OPEC nations raised the price of oil in 1973-74 and caused a worldwide recession, Poland's exports, instead of continuing to rise as Gierek planned, began to falter. Unable to lay off any workers?a taboo under the full-employment doctrine of Communism?Gierek had to borrow more and more money from the West to keep going. Poland's foreign debt rose from $4.8 billion in 1974 to $25.5 billion in 1981. Servicing and repayment of the loans, which are owed to 15 Western governments...
...know, they kept it secret from us children," she whispers, as if the taboo were still enforced. "My daddy was in the war for 16 years. He was just a young boy but he was still goin' at it in the mountains." Henry D. Hatfield, 53, says of his great uncle Henry D., a physician and politician: "He would actually, physically, throw you out of that hospital if you'd ask him about that feud." Peacemaking was an active mission among both families. "My parents," Belle says, "made us be friendly with the McCoys...