Word: taboos
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...this sort of briefing for the Carnival date. "Sleep. Do it all before you arrive 'cause those strong, starved outdoorsmen as well as tweedy, pudgy pals have so much on your agenda, and so much stamina to back it up with that sleeping is practically forbidden, almost taboo, and don't suggest it to your date under any conditions ... Dartmouth Men are proud, husky men who like a lot of fun. Remember that...
...book is a call for action, it is also another person. When we bring ourselves to the book we must offer our intelligence to the book. Orthodoxies, preconceptions, inhibitions, are all taboo if you would read...
...show comes the overall impression that the only thing taboo in Joán Miró's weird world of pixilated fantasy and around the kiln in Barcelona is a deficient sense of humor...
...disease. If occasion demands, infants' sex organs may now be exposed. ¶ Narcotics. Drug addiction and all its byproducts may now be freely depicted, but only if damned on all counts. ¶ Bigotry and Prejudice. Miscegenation may now be handled discreetly, but anything inciting hatred among peoples is taboo. To be "avoided": the use of the words "chink, dago, frog, greaser, hunkie, kike, nigger, spik...
...Deal. The Maulas who inhabit Monsarrat's island are a grave, long-winded, humorless people, including urbanized zoot-suiters down at the port and taboo-ridden jungle men up north. The older Maulas are courteous and profoundly conservative-content with the hope that their chief will one day lead them to a seat in the commodious kraal of the British Commonwealth. The chief is 22-year-old Dinamaula; seven years of English schools, an Oxford law degree and the flattering attention of progressive girls...