Word: anathema
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...liberal Governor Michael S. Dukakis, who now teaches public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, lost in the gubernatorial primary to old-style Democrat Edward J. King. A Kennedy drubbing would deligh King, who beat liberal Republican Frank Hatch and took office last January. He has since become anathema to government officials who have a reputation to lose. King is actively campaigning for Carter, undoubtedly hoping for a mandate against Kennedy's policies to make things less pleasant for liberals in the state--especially Kennedy himself and freshman Sen. Paul Tsongas...
...worth noting the three basic speech patterns of Greek tragedy. Hecuba embarks on a lamentation that might be called the first language of the Middle East, stretching around the Mediterranean crescent from the Wailing Wall of Jerusalem to the melancholy, snakelike flutes of the Casbah. The second mode is anathema, the curse absolute. The third is the speech of self-absolution. Protagonists in Greek plays never blame themselves for their actions. Either the gods made them do it, or their enemies are culpable or they are the victims of tyche: luck or blind chance...
...called the Federal Communication Commission's present control of broadcasting, including the fairness, equal access and "seven dirty words" rules, a threat to the First Amendment which would be "anathema to newspapers...