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Gloomy Sunday is a 120-year-old tradition in Mississippi. An 1822 blue law still forbids Mississippians to attend bearbaiting, cockfights, bullfights and any other routine amusements of a Sabbath. Sunday movies are taboo-to the intensified boredom of some 110,000 soldiers training in the State. They wander aimlessly up & down the dead, empty streets of Mississippi towns, honing for something to do, and usually finding it only in honky-tonks and back-street bordellos...
Formerly known to thousands of pleasure-lovers as the Dartmouth Carnival, the yearly orgy of sports, wine, and women has been tamed by college officials and most of the glamorous features have been declared taboo...
Immediately, from the right, from the left, and from behind came a barrage of evil, malavolent stares. Not one of the looks was backed up with a voice, but I had a feeling that I had desecrated something holy, that I had violated the Saturday afternoon taboo of the fourth estate by making an enthusiastic noise. From that point on I followed my own example of the first three quarters and desisted...
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...Germany two and a half centuries ago, the Mennonites have farmed the rich land of Lancaster County, Pa. They are simple folk, and simplicity is the heart of their religion. They do not believe in war or violence. The strictest Mennonites do not believe in self-decoration; buttons are taboo, and so are pictures. They do not believe in getting mixed up with their nonbelieving neighbors...