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Leviticus Says No. He tells the story, wittily and well, by putting the problem of ethics on a kind of analyst's couch and dredging up its troubled case history. The childhood of ethics, in the Russell view, is taboo. Taboo morality is a strict black-and-white affair filled with dread and sanctions, the ethics of primitive...
...Taboo lingers on, Russell feels, in the popular objections to euthanasia and birth control. Russell asks: "Suppose atomic bombs had reduced the population of the world to one brother and sister; should they let the human race die out? I do not know the answer, but I do not think H can be in the affirmative merely on the ground that incest is wicked." The problem of ethics grows as it is touched by religion. Biblical authority, says Russell, is sometimes contradictory: "Should a childless widow marry her deceased husband's brother? Leviticus says no, Deuteronomy says yes (Leviticus...
...Kraft TV Theater production of Time of the Drought violated a long-standing taboo by cheerfully portraying a village freethinker who was at his happiest mocking the beliefs of his neighbors and making life miserable for the new minister. What was more impressive, he stayed consistent throughout and was even given the play's last, defiant line. Ed Begley was brilliant as the cranky iconoclast who stuck to his principles in the face of overwhelming Christian charity and forgiveness on the part of his fellow men, while Joe Maross made a believable young preacher who was both uncertain...
...decided to do something about it. "The attire being worn in public by some American women is not in good taste," he proclaimed. Henceforth, "women dressed improperly" would not be permitted to enter U.S. military installations in his area, including PXs, commissaries, theaters, snack bars and service clubs. Specifically taboo...
...Cain is still murdering his brother. Like a little boy with a gun, a string of cars or a toy steamer, we are fascinated by the city. We like clamor, and the clamor becomes glamour. We become insensate to beauty-but beauty is a word that soon will be taboo. I only use it when I feel weak and foolish...