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...widening breach between the 25-year-old Hollywood Production Code, which has recently relaxed its taboo list, and the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency, still the nation's most powerful box-office pressure group, is gradually becoming more obvious. Items...
...Watkins, delivered an ultimatum to U.S. producers (whose movies last year grossed $109,992,000 in Britain): "Anyone who prolongs scenes of violence is only doing so to titillate a small unhealthy section of the audience." More broadminded about sex than U.S. censors, Watkins long ago abandoned the taboo on picturing husbands and wives in bed together by commenting: "Where else would you expect them to sleep nights...
...Small-Size Adult." According to Flesch, the basic flaw in the system lies in that it "looks at a child as if it were a small-size adult." Lip reading and learning the rudimentary ABCs are taboo; the word "children" is "children" only because Teacher says so, not from any deciphering of its component letter-sounds. Result: a third-grader is "unable to decipher 90% of his own speaking and listening vocabulary when he sees it in print...
...even before newspapers headlined Cárdenas' refusal to comment, a farm credit union official hailed Flores' words: "At last a top-ranking official has publicly recognized failure in the ejidal system, which has so long seemed to be taboo, and on whose altars truth and justice have so often been sacrificed." Then up spoke a Congressman: "We have been inhibited too long by fear of being called reactionaries for talking of problems like this. Now what is needed are solutions that will make Yucatáán as well as other depressed areas of our country truly...
...happily strip in public, that may be because, as 23-year-old Novelist Elisabeth Trévol puts it: "We are afraid to write a woman's book, so we try to deepen our voices. We discover how easy and amusing it is to talk of things 'taboo.' That shamelessness is a bit forced." But the majority of the women novelists, even the beginners, are sure-handed craftswomen. The best of them do not trade on their femininity, want to be judged as writers. Says Dominique Aubier, a perceptive lady critic and novelist: "The book arrives alone...