Word: anathema
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...capitalize them, inset them in outline from: be sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all exams insist at the top. "Illustrate", "Be specific"; etc? They mean it. The illustrations needn't of course be singularly relevant; but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered through your bluebook will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List, Name at least the titles of every other book Hume ever wrote; don't just say "Medieval cathedrals"--name nine. Think of a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence," like...
...pleased, these women of Brewster Place, hands on hips, straight-backed, round-bellied, high-behinded women" have no interest or time to be maudlin. In this first novel, Naylor also demonstrates a rare mastery of the Black idiom and a delicate sense of balance in her usage. Chronology, the anathema of many a more seasoned writer, is the building block of the novel. Flashbacks, recollections and some of the finest dream sequences in contemporary fiction, intermingle to make each story strikingly circular, each one returning to a face, a memory, or a symbol that invoked the episode in the first...
Once a Democrat-he became a Republican in 1970-Baker has long been anathema to the far right. Often conservatives have tried to persuade Reagan to drop Baker. "Jim is a reasonable person who sits down with the opposition and works things out," complains Richard Viguerie, the right's direct-mail expert, who considers such reasonableness a weakness. In Viguerie's view, Baker "doesn't understand confrontation politics...
...three, which have agreed to limit the growth rate of their major textile shipments to 1% per year, China has balked. It argued that, since it runs an annual trade deficit of $600 million with the U.S., it should be allowed a growth rate closer to 6%. That is anathema to U.S. textile producers and labor organizations; they claim that U.S. manufacturers are being undercut by low-wage producers in Asia...
...record in foreign affairs, though, is reviving the reputations of some who used to tend the store. Zbigniew Brzezinski, once associated with the confusions of Carter's policy, now gets respectful attention in the papers. So does Carter, when he is talking about Arabs and Israelis. Henry Kissinger, anathema to Reagan's right-wing supporters, has been called in as a consultant by Secretary of State George Shultz. "The reason guru-grabbing has come into such vogue is that a strategy vacuum exists within the divided Reagan White House," writes conservative Columnist William Safire. He regards Reagan...