Word: taboos
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Nightly, just after the 9 o'clock news, the ballyhoo-shunning BBC quietly introduces a speaker chosen by his party. Aside from these 30-minute talks, mention of political personalities or the campaign is taboo. Not even Churchill, who last week toured the hinterlands (see FOREIGN NEWS) , gets so much as a passing reference...
...mention of death in the Monitor's pages, I find no editorial taboo, as witness the moving tribute to one of your profession, Ernie Pyle, in the editorial columns of a recent issue...
...Although the excellent Monitor generally prefers the euphemism "passed on" to "died,' and is averse to mentioning death, TIME erred in saying that the Monitor has a taboo against...
...carried their feuding beyond the grave. In place of an editorial, they ran a column of "Famous Sayings of Franklin D. Roosevelt," slyly picking the ones they had frequently berated, including the "again and again and again" anti-war pledge.) The Christian Science Monitor, to which death is a taboo subject, ran an eight-column banner: "TRUMAN PLEDGES U.S. TO ROOSEVELT POLICY." Only in the second paragraph was there a fleeting reference to "the sudden, unwarned passing of Mr. Roosevelt." Cerebral hemorrhage was not mentioned, but the Monitor spoke guardedly of "what had happened in the 'Little White House...
...promptly notify my brown-and white-and yellow-skinned acquaintances along Uturoa beach that until further notice it is taboo for them to see me-unless they want red sparks to fly from my eyes...