Word: anathemae
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...mirrored both the mystic and the soldier. Although a Catholic, Stauffenberg found an added outlet for his private form of religion in the "circle of Stefan George," named for a poetteacher-prophet who preached a new order. StaufFenberg thus epitomized faith in traditional religion, the aristocracy and culture-all anathema to the Nazis' new order...
...primed to pounce on it as an attack on the Negro family itself. Among other things, Moynihan was called a racist and accused of having given encouragement to segregationists. By the time a White House planning session on Negro problems convened in November, both Moynihan and his report were anathema. "There is a certain kind of decent liberal mind," he reflected later, "which feels any criticism of liberal programs is illiberal, because everything is so precarious that any criticism is just going to give the enemy ammunition. That's not the way to make things work. We have...
...Russian Poet Andrei Voznesensky that the people now want, and are ready for, "the naked truth, and not truth concealed beneath the fig leaf of censorship." Last week two critics were rebuked for writing in Komsomolskaya Pravda, the Communist Youth League newspaper, that Soviet theater censors seem to find anathema every play that offers "a serious answer to the serious problems of life...
...tente has not come easily. Kuchel, 56, among the most liberal and independent of Republicans, is anathema to many of Reagan's conservative supporters. In 1962, Reagan backed Kuchel's opponent in the party primary. Kuchel returned the disfavor in the 1966 gubernatorial primary and then refused to support Reagan in the general election...
...State subsidies of the arts seem to be anathema in the United States," Ustinov said, "but in Europe, the prevailing attitude seems to be that the money is welcome, whatever the source...