Word: taboos
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...with, the story does not lend itself to a willing suspension of disbelief. The setting is a Polish ghetto town about a century ago. Yentl (Tovah Feldshuh) is an extremely bright girl who relishes reading and discussing the Talmud and the Torah with her learned father. It is strictly taboo for a Jewish woman to be studying these sacred texts. Yentl is precocious and prone to dispute with her elders, like the young Jesus...
Obscenities do not have the same power among college students as they have in ordinary life. Constant use, frequently in playful and affectionate circumstances, have emasculated them of any dark, taboo properties they might once have had. Pauline Kael has observed that college students really cannot conceive of the vicious injury inflicted when they as demonstrators taunt policemen and National Guardsmen with the casual obscenities of the collegiate vocabulary. They do not realize that for most people these obscenities are still functional weapons...
This week's cover story deals with a subject that is both sensitive and difficult but demands attention: the continuing efforts of homosexuals to win greater acceptance in society. The story draws heavily on reporting from TIME correspondents across the U.S. Once all but taboo, the subject of homosexuality is now being treated with increasing-and increasingly open-concern in psychological, clerical and political forums as people like our cover subject, Air Force Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, struggle for what they regard as full civil rights. It is a struggle that often alarms the "straight" world...
Ballet was less accepted when I came to the U.S. with Ballet Russe in 1934. Strange restrictions were placed on male dancers then: tights were taboo in some parts of the country, and as late as 1950 male dancers had to wear knee-length jackets to appear...
...interviewing miners and investigating working and safety conditions. The Journal has run stories on how to press a Social Security black-lung claim; it has also uncovered and documented conflicts of interest by the general counsel of a rival organization, the Southern Labor Union. Last year it defied a taboo and printed the complete list of the U.M.W.'s contract demands for the membership before the union began its bargaining sessions with the coal operators. Most significantly, however, the Journal has taken to printing dissenting opinion in a "Rank & File Speaks" feature and the letters column. Says Joseph Rauh...