Word: anathema
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...intellectual capacities well employed, especially in the acquiring of an education in the liberal arts and sciences." Instructions to the electors interpert "intellectual capacities well employed" more narrowly as "scholarship." "Good character" is also relevant (PBK presumably excludes outright criminals), but the phrase "achievement in extracurricular activities" is an anathema...
...There is no reason why we should not talk of this. One of the things I like about America is the crazy contradictoriness of American life. It is sheer delight for me to think of all those superpatriots in Texas and California, who would find Senator Javits anathema-andnot only because he is a liberal-whooping it up for dear old Barry. And it is a sheer delight to think of the paradox of Catholics deciding that Kennedy is too radical for them, and rooting for Goldwater, while Jews will be unmoved by Goldwater's Jewish ties and will...
Under the leadership of Chief Justice Warren, the Supreme Court has aggrieved a great many Americans. Its civil rights decisions are anathema to Southern segregationists; its careful attention toward civil liberties encourages the far right to call for Warren's impeachment...
...years since then have not diminished the spirit of Kompromisslosigkeit -no compromise-that guides both Die Zeit and its foreign editor. To Bonn and most West Germans, East Germany is anathema. But the Grafin has persistently advocated closer contacts with the other side of the Wall. "The Iron Curtain does not protect us from Eastern infiltration," read a recent editorial, "but cuts the Eastern countries off from the infiltration of freedom." The Grafin has visited East Germany twice; once, when a group of East German writers were refused permission by West German police to pay a return visit to Hamburg...
...that put him foursquare in favor of "the best interests of the plain people of this nation" and "an even break for the average man." Some of his Senate colleagues insisted that there was a vacuum in the space between his ears. And he was a loner who became anathema to the national Democratic hierarchy...