Word: taboos
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...remaining principles of Hsieh Ho include proper usage of the brush, careful depiction of forms, "pleasing" application of color, and transmission and perpetuation of the masters. This sixth principle deeply influenced Chinese painting. Imitation of the great masters tends to become unimaginative repetition. There is no taboo on plagiarism in the East as in the West. The imitator was apt to become less forceful, further from the essential nature of the subject, as a result of his study of the masters. Continuities of style certainly mark Western art, too, but the variations have been more extreme and are not bound...
...writings on sex he received the list of adjectives at the New York trial. Despite its impact on England of the 1920's, though, Marriage and Morals could hardly shock anyone today. The unwaveringly high-minded tone of Russell's argument, indeed, is more arresting than his taboo-smashing. "I think," he says, "that all sex relations which do not involved children should be regarded as a purely private affair, and that if a man and a women choose to live together without having children, that should be no one's business but their own." The exceeding difficulty of obtaining...
Packaged by David Susskind's Talent Associates-Paramount, the show is run by Producer Robert Costello, who enjoys remarkable freedom to do what he pleases. The Armstrong Cork Co. keeps its distance, and the results show it. "We have no strictly taboo subjects," says Costello, "but I suppose if we wanted to do a show where a child eats a piece of cork flooring and dies, well...
Unfortunately, most people are extremely shy about any nude, but no doubt you have contributed your praiseworthy share to the abolishment of the body taboo, which forbids so many people to consider the human body as being natural, pure and therefore beautiful...
None to be debated: Salazar's Angola war, lack of free speech, are taboo...