Word: anathema
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Asserting that the central issues involved at the "Counter Teach-In" were free speech and academic freedom, the CRR argues in its report, "To say that a speaker whose opinions are unpopular, even anathema to a vast majority of the University community, will not be allowed to express his opinion when duly invited to do so is simply to make a mockery of any meaningful concept of academic freedom and freedom of speech. The University cannot compromise on this point and survive as a free institution...
...there are at least 250 in that limbo. Last year the placement director at Beloit wrote to every junior, suggesting that they chat with him about how to prepare a resume to get a job. "I didn't get one response," he says. "Vocational planning to them is anathema, an Establishment sort of thing to do. These kids just don't want to start immediately on a nine-to-five...
BRADSHAW: The U.S. operates with a huge albatross around its neck, and that is the albatross of its traditions. They are the traditions that brought about our antitrust laws and created the private enterprise system and made it anathema for anyone around this table to talk about the benefits of a corporate state. But that is what Japan is today. I would hope that we will consider today what it means to have national goals with industry and government working hand in hand toward those goals. Look at my industry, oil. I have been struggling to get a national energy...
...that His Church be instructed in defining doctrine on faith and morals; and so such definitions of the Roman Pontiff from himself, but not from the consensus of the Church, are unalterable. But if anyone presumes to contradict this definition of ours, which may God forbid: let him be anathema...
...regulation at all is anathema to some civil libertarians, who have a respectable and logical position. It was easier to agree with them when pornography was young and reasonably clean-for instance, back in 1949, when Judge Curtis Bok inveighed against censorship. "I should prefer that my own three daughters meet the facts of life in my own library than behind a neighbor's barn," he wrote. But with pornography what it is today, parents may wonder whether their daughters are not actually better off behind the barn than in the library or at the movies. Even liberal Americans...