Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...panoply and suspense of the conclave, it is a stark and lonely time for the cardinals themselves. They are imprisoned in an atmosphere of Renaissance marble contrasting with improvised wooden partitions, inhibited in their talks with each other and especially with their accompanying conclavists (with whom they are forbidden to discuss the balloting). Even their meals, in a temporary refectory set up amid Pintoricchio frescoes in the Borgia apartments, offer little comfort. Cracked one Vaticaner when he heard that the cardinals' cooks would be six sisters from the Order of Santa Marta: "That alone will be a great encouragement...
...Roof, Tennessee Williams' savage dissection of a tormented Southern family, which has as its hero an implicit homosexual. (Article III, Section 6: "Sex perversion or any inference of it is forbidden...
...Perfect Furlough, in which part of the chatter has to do with sending "do-it-yourself" kits to the sex-starved personnel of an Army radar station in Alaska. (Article V, Section 2: "Obscenity in words . . . even when likely to be understood by only part of the audience, is forbidden...
...Worked Where?" His mother was no help. Once when he was in the hospital and forbidden to drink, he lowered a rope of bandages down to her, and she tied on two bottles of vodka for him. In the name of victory, his bosses put up with everything until last spring he raped a girl named Tamara. Tamara refused to be bribed into silence, and the case wound up in court. There, keeping his face turned away from the public, a ruined Edouard sobbed out his answers: "You worked where?" "In the committee of the Likhachev Auto Plant." "In what...
...ordained the act of love for man's procreation, and to thwart this purpose is. according to Roman Catholic doctrine, a sinful contravention of God's will. Birth control by mechanical or medicinal means is absolutely forbidden by the church, and women for whom childbearing is a health risk are enjoined to practice abstinence, either total or periodic, from sexual intercourse. It follows that Catholic doctors and nurses may not prescribe contraceptive devices, even for non-Catholic patients. But should Catholics, when they are in a position to do so, stop non-Catholic doctors from prescribing contraceptives...