Word: coding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believe that a code of conduct between nations is in itself important. In time, the existence of this code does begin to affect public opinion and public opinion in its turn has an influence upon the behaviour of governments...
...spurred by Union Oil Co.'s discovery in Costa Rica last September of the first oil ever found in quantity between Mexico and the South American mainland. That well quickly flooded with salt water, but Union will drill two more, and Costa Rica is enacting a liberal oil code. Because the Costa Rican discovery was right on the border of Panama, which already had an inviting oil law, six U.S. firms hurried there. All of Panama has been let out on exploratory concessions, and three test wells drilled...
DECEMBER. Confidential strikes again, saying that if students put a code number on their book cards, they can get call girls at the call desk. Time magazine names Richard Nixon man-of-the-year. Stephen Aaron and the H.D.C. land in Moscow to film the October Revolution...
...result is disintegration of taste. "The [Catholic] community no longer has any means at its disposal for distinguishing one piece of work from another, provided both subscribe to the same moral code. A vulgar virgin is as good as a sensitively conceived virgin; the only thing that matters is that it is a virgin." The "generally low taste" of U.S. Catholics, according to Kerr, "has been a minor scandal for quite a time...
...earthier facts of life, as most U.S. moviegoers know, often whisper but seldom thunder from the silver screen. U.S. movie makers are bound by ground rules: the industry's own self-censorship code, first drafted in 1929. Last week the movie industry announced the code's first major overhaul in a quarter-century. Items: ¶J Sex. "Open-mouth kissing" has been banned. Childbirth may now be "treated within the careful limits of good taste." Abortion may be "suggested," but must be seriously "condemned." Seduction, rape, adultery and fornication "shall not be explicitly treated, nor . . . justified." Prostitutes...