Word: taboos
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...incest taboo, the persistence of the nuclear family and the failure of slavery are all due to biological predispositions...
...subject of strikes seems to be taboo among the kitchen workers--at least when outsiders are within earshot. Thelma shies away from discussing a skirmish between kitchen employees and the University a few years ago, and she quickly asserts that the incident was just a little misunderstanding that had been all straightened out. On the other hand, John says, "we can't strike. It's not in the contract. We had a big argument about that." Most kitchen workers decline to talk about the possibility of a kitchen workers' strike similar to the one at Yale last fall. Union issues...
...begins to cope more directly with the once taboo subject of death, the hospice idea is likely to spread even farther and faster. Sandol Stoddard's sympathetic new book, The Hospice Movement: A Better Way of Caring for the Dying (Stein & Day; $8.95), is already in its third printing. Next October, at its first annual meeting in Washington, the N.H.O. will push for legislation that will allow insurance payments for hospice care. Zachary Morfogen, N.H.O. chairman, thinks enormous strides have already been made. Says he: "Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to persuade any corporation to include...
...some cases the preposterous plots are exceeded by the presumptuous flackery. Templeton's publishers announce that during his promotional tour he will "break the last taboo on national TV." Rader's novel was unveiled at a Manhattan disco with a gospel sing-along starring Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, William F. Buckley and Walter Cronkite. Stein & Day let it be known that The Final Conclave was printed under extraordinary security lest it be "suppressed." By whom? The publisher didn't say; surely a banning in Boston or a burning in Butte would have hyped the book...
Pretty Baby. The come-on was irresistable. Brooke Shields--the 12 year old prepubescent tart of our most secret fantasies. And Louis Malle--the man who might have done for the topic of child prostitution what he did with the incest taboo in "Murmur of the Heart." But the product is confused in its story line and unidentifiable in its ideology, all in all a pretty big let down. Shields conveys all the mischieviousness of childhood, and none of the mystery. Her mother (Susan Sarandon) strands her in their New Orleans brothel without us ever really understanding why. And although...