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Words of Latin and French derivation referring to the sex act and bodily organs are acceptable in English. Bloomfield testified, but words of Angio-Saxon origin with identical meanings are tabu. He also said that certain words common to lower social classes are slowly becoming more acceptable in modern literature...
...Singers Margaret and Barbara) replace I Love Lucy. CBS's promising public affairs show, Look Up and Live, last Sunday began a special nine-part summer series aimed at helping teenagers. And daytime's You Are the Jury is an unrehearsed courtroom drama exploring areas often considered tabu on TV. Experienced judges and counsel will play themselves, and a jury will be selected from the studio audience. A few sturdy reliables will fight the summer heat live: Ed Sullivan, U.S. Steel Hour, What's My Line?, $64,000 Question and Challenge, I've Got a Secret...
...Denver Art Museum staged a show last week that had more to do with anthropology than with esthetics. Entitled "Myths and Magic," it was a hodgepodge of everything from ancient Egyptian good-luck pieces and African fetishes to Solomon Island tabu sticks, Javanese puppets and Navajo sand paintings. Such things were not made merely to look at. Most of them had great visual impact, but their power was at least doubled by an understanding of the superstitions and purposes back of them...
Vittorio DeSica's prize-laden Bicycle Thief is undergoing revival at the Greenwich, 12th and Seventh, coupled with Robert J. Flaherty's famous Tabu...
...Chicago, Perfume King (Tabu) J. Leslie Younghusband, whose Florida wedding to Dancer Mary Uhlmann made quite a social splash back in 1937 (Younghusband slugged one newspaperman behind the ear, threw another into the swimming pool), filed suit for divorce on the ground that fifth wife Mary had gone off and left...