Word: taboos
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...many of his most severe cuts on the "non-essential" social sciences in a move many educators have labeled purely political and restrictive of academic freedom. By reducing support for research in areas such as abortion and family mental health, educators say, Reagan hopes to see programs he considers taboo or not justifying government involvement swept into a corner and forgotten...
...over a tub of waxy material. A cabinet-like frame hung on the wall above. The guide booklet said the waxy stuff represented human fat; the rolling table, an embalming tray and the tools in the cabinet, embalming tools. The observer was supposed to reach and overcome the death taboo, called "The Morgue," the work aimed to fill the senses with revulsion and horror so that the viewer gradually lost his sensitivity to death...
...project emphasize that their research is done without interference from the Reagan or Anderson staffs. Although "there obviously ought to be some communication between the scholars and the professionals they are assisting," Moore says that as in 1968 and 1976, when the IOP sponsored similar studies, partisanship is taboo...
Lifting the incest taboo is consistent with the new emphasis on child sex-symbol movie stars and child porn filling "adult" bookstores. I believe the trend is related to the concept of sex as an allegory for power...
...lobby against the taboo come about? One strain of its philosophy springs from the fringes of the children's rights movement, which insists that small children be granted all the rights of adults. Some have taken that to mean the right to be sexually active with any partner at all. Says Larry Constantine, an assistant clinical professor in psychiatry at Tufts, one such self-styled sexual radical: "Children have the right to express themselves sexually, even with members of their own family...