Word: taboos
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...nowadays wisdom and impartial judgement are taboo in the United States Senate. Pelletier's attorney confesses that he "overlooked a point"--Senator Robinson wants to know who wrote the treaty. Nothing could be more irrelevant, to judge anything logically does not necessitate knowing who wrote it. This tempts us to paraphrase a proverb and say "Suspicion begins at home". We read that in the "Council of wise men" Senator Watson had an audience of six Senators when speaking on how we are going the way of empire. Considering Haiti and Samoa, this danger at least is not to be disregarded...
...Laidler's SpeechThe third speech, "The Task Ahead", was by H. W. Laidler, secretary of the intercollegiate Socialist Society. He said that it was the task of the students to keep open the channels which suffer most from social taboo, such as socialism, communism, I. W. Whism, and anarchism: to try to find out why the press, why other forces in society, are creating the taboo...
...fully realize how absurd my idea is, yet an idea is an idea and when it is stamped on the brain, well, it is bound to cling more or less. I really an scared I might get a Harvard mannerism, to be definite, and that is why Cambridge is taboo land...
...Vincent Club presentation of "Satni" at the Wilbur an amateur theatrical which it is a privilege and a joy to watch. It is a true privilege and a joy to watch. It is a true privilege, too, for until this year Vincent shows have been more strictly taboo for men than any Sultan's harem; it is to be hoped that the ban, once lifted, will not be reimposed...
People who want to deal with Russia and Bolshevism by the taboo method imply one or the other of two things: either their secret fear that the Russians are working out a superior system, or their conviction that the American people can't be trusted to tell right from wrong. The first of these ideas belittles democracy; the second denies it. HAZELTON SPENCEE...