Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...witnesses may not be present at a grand-jury proceeding. They are sometimes allowed at an inquest; yet they are not normally permitted to raise objections to the testimony, nor do they have the right to cross-examine witnesses. Thus, the inquest testimony can range widely, and counsel is forbidden to challenge any allegations that are made, no matter how farfetched. Kennedy's lawyers claim, however, that a recent Supreme Court decision gives them this prerogative in any hearing aimed at "exposing violations of criminal law by specific individuals...
...Soviet artist who travels happily in and out of his homeland. "A travesty of truth," replied Ashkenazy from Greece, where he was vacationing. Indeed, the pianist has not set foot on Russian soil since 1963, when he fled Moscow in fear and disgust. Ashkenazy explained that he had been forbidden to travel for three years after his U.S. tour in 1958, and was later granted an exit visa only on condition that his wife remained in Russia as a "moral hostage." Eventually, Khrushchev gave them permission to travel together, arid once they left home, they never returned. "No sane person...
...companies have been forced to alter their corporate structures. Some 400 investor-owned insurance companies, including nearly all the big ones, have turned themselves into subsidiaries of newly created holding companies during the past few years. These are free to invest and diversify in ways that insurers have been forbidden to do directly...
...writer is above all an artist who is trying to penetrate into the unknown. He must be honest and objective, and be able to do his creative work in freedom. These are all obvious truths. These are the very things that writers are forbidden in the Soviet Union...
...Christians, whether Catholic or Protestant,* were asked to give up many of their tribal cultural traditions. Not only were the most dehumanizing practices proscribed-ritual murder, human sacrifice, slavery-but also many other institutions that were an intricate part of the fabric of communal life. Polygamy was almost universally forbidden. The ancestor cult, a belief that the dead remained a part of the village and should help control its life, was discredited. Ritual dances and chants, ritual drinking, even the traditional and critical rites of passage-ceremonies marking birth, death, puberty, marriage-were treated as lapses into heathenism. Though...