Word: taboos
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...course, God and country, are taboo topics during these mostly tear-filled reunions, but almost all the North Korean families praise Kim Jong Il at least several times during the two-hour live broadcast. "All our education is free and we don't pay for hospital care," says a sixty-something North Korean woman, who is sitting on a long purple sofa with her sister and father in a room that also doesn't seem too conducive to reconnecting with relatives one hasn't seen in more than a half century...
...York University professor Tony Judt, who wrote a New York Times op-ed supporting the pair shortly after their article appeared, said in an interview yesterday that the professors’ work has forced a discussion of the Israeli lobby’s influence, a previously taboo topic...
...drugs. Faced with all that anti-addiction publicity, what makes HBO’s new 14-part documentary series “Addiction” any different? For starters, the documentary series, which premiered yesterday, aspires to do more than frighten viewers. It aims to turn addiction from a taboo subject into an acceptable community topic for discussion. At an advance screening held in Boston on Feb. 26, experts and former addicts came together to express enthusiasm for the show. REAL-WORLD ECHOES The screening, held at the Massachusetts State House, brought together many recovering addicts, representatives from the Massachusetts...
...professors, who face off weekly in their new spring course Psychology 1002, “Morality and Taboo,” argued the merits and tastes of the two Jewish delicacies in front of a packed Beren Hall at Harvard Hillel...
...there is a difference between gratuitously employing “adult” words in a children’s book and complementing one’s narrative with the use of words that signify the mysterious adult world around the protagonist. If taboo subjects are brought up in a children’s book and dealt with in the proper manner, then it should not be censored...