Word: anathema
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vice. At his request, the far-right spokesmen held down their rhetoric. Anti-ERA Leader Phyllis Schlafly was very quiet, unusually so. Fundamentalist Preacher Jerry Falwell, whose Moral Majority organization has registered 2 million new voters, made no ringing speeches. Even former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who is anathema to the extreme right, was welcomed with applause when he appeared on the podium. This time, said Pennsylvania's Thornburgh, the Republicans have no desire to "leave the battlefield littered with the wounded from an ideological tong...
...opinion of GOP moderates anathema to conservatives? In an atmosphere of reaction, tacitly strengthened by public sentiment, it is. And as the moderates--who pose the greatest threat to rigid conservatism--are co-opted by this convention, the country's future dims. Amid the anti-Carter rhetoric that can carry the November election, there must be some strands of reason, some sign that conservatives are not uncompromising. This week in Detroit, there have been no such indications. Maybe that's why conservatives sport smiles wide than Carter's 1976 grin. The roots of the slogan, "Together--A New Beginning...
...very structure of Soviet society, as well as in its ideological foundations. To do so would require a degree of foresight and boldness that, up until now, the system has suppressed, and it would risk unleashing sudden, unpredictable change and upheaval in a country where both are anathema...
...much as in the '30s and '40s, modernism is anathema...
...remedial taming, and this results in some of the funniest scenes in a play that, for all its tensions, bubbles with surprising laughter. When Mark seeks to deliver a sermon on the evils of "mink hats, cashmere coats and blue hair" Father Farley shows him how to palliate his anathema "in a Norman Rockwell setting." Perplexed as to how to console parishioners who have lost a dear one, Mark is told by the Father to "bring common grief to the level of the inconsolable by saying something inane," and he proffers some blackly humorous examples...