Word: verboten
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...talent with luck, and ultimately, most important of all, skill. I realize that the word skill outrages many modern actors. Some years ago, when I occasionally attended some of Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio lectures out of curiosity, I found that skill was a word that was absolutely verboten. Strasberg was saying very risky things that came to him from the sky. He fed very much on spontaneity. I think if you're lecturing young people on a craft or an art, it should be studied and carefully thought...
...mind for a long time, he says, as a result of the puritanical atmosphere he grew up in, in a Methodist orphanage in North Carolina where he and the other children "had religion pumped into every orifice of our little helpless bodies, and of course everything about sex was verboten, it was dirty, it was sinful, it was guilt-ridden...
...collection of Franz Kafka, including the corrosively antitotalitarian novel The Trial. Publication was soon halted by the Gestapo. Driven into exile in 1938, Schocken fought with the U.S. Army against the Nazis, later established his own publishing house in New York, bringing out translations of Kafka's once verboten works...
...stigma. As Coffin explains, "The danger of premarital sex while it was verboten was that it covered up a multitude of gaps. A girl had to believe she was in love because, she told herself, she wouldn't otherwise go to bed. As a result, the real relationship never got fully explored...
...limited to matters between the U.S. and China. Mindful of the suspicions that the Peking summit has raised in other capitals, Kissinger stressed that there would be no discussion of "third-party issues." Nixon would not mention China's differences with the Soviet Union. Viet Nam, too, was verboten. "We expect to settle the war either by the unilateral policies we are pursuing or in negotiations with Hanoi," Kissinger said. "We do not expect to settle it in Peking...