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taboos were in place. It would have been unthinkable to write of a woman’s breasts. The proper terminology, if the matter had to be discussed at all, was to speak of her bosom, her chest or her upper torso. There was no such thing, in print, as syphilis or gonorrhea; there were only social diseases.
We now report, straight out, that Vincent Foster killed himself; he did not meet death by his own hand. Editors authorize candid identification of bodily parts and functions. Testimony at a recent rape trial dealt with pubic hair and semen, and that was the way we read it in the papers.
I also have a contradictory impression that euphemisms are getting sillier and more numerous all the time. There is something pathetic in identifying a stupid child as an exceptional underachiever. Prison inmates are not “clients of the correctional system.” They are prisoners. When a' prisoner attempted five years ago to tattle on Vice President Dan Quayle, reporters were told that the prisoner was in “administrative detention.” Where he was, was in a solitary cell.
Some years ago the new director of a TV station in Portland, Ore., reported on the air that a local personage had been “fired.” The next day brought a memo frorryjhe station
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