Word: taboos
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...alienation are not going to produce great works of art." The vast majority of writers, publishers and critics rejoice over the decline of censorship. While it permits the emergence of much trash, they feel that this is the necessary price for the occasional great work that might otherwise be taboo-for example, Nabokov's Lolita, a brilliant tour de force. But they concede that the new permissiveness paradoxically imposes a more difficult task on the writer; in a way it is harder to work without than within limits. Says Critic-Author Leslie Fiedler: "We've got our freedom...
Thwarted Love. In the 1930s, the once funny comics grew ever more solemn. Dick Tracy introduced blood and bullets that had long been taboo, plus an assortment of grotesquely drawn but weirdly fascinating hoods: Prune Face, Fly Face, No Face. In Terry and the Pirates, Milton Caniff soon replaced the pirates with the Japanese-Terry was the first comic strip to go to war. Later Caniff gave up the youthful Terry for the more mature Steve Canyon, a seat-of-the-pants pilot who fights the battles of the Air Force so effectively that Caniff was once denounced...
...memorandum was signed by Secretary of State Dean Rusk, and ad dressed to all U.S. embassy personnel overseas. Strictly taboo, forthwith, is that fine old tradition of turning a tidy buck by peddling the autos brought into their host countries duty-free under diplomatic immunity...
...been known for years that both Lenin and Stalin operated concentration camps long before Hitler, but the fact has been strictly taboo in the Communist press. Only Westerners have "distorted" the Soviet image by bringing the matter up. Last week, however, the skeleton in Moscow's closet was being loudly rattled not by any Western capitalist, but by a comrade in a supposedly fraternal country...
...Committee. In his sentiments. Smylie has plenty of Republican company. Thus Illinois' defeated gubernatorial candidate, Charles Percy, in a speech prepared for the National Association of Manufacturers' Public Relations Conference in Manhattan (Percy did not actually deliver it because N.A.M. officials protested that partisan political speeches were taboo at that session), said: "I think it is clear, first of all, that we must have a change in command at the national level." And Manhattan's Representative John Lindsay, one of the more impressive Republican winners this year, last week said scathingly: "The people who engineered the campaigns...