Word: anathemae
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Lodge's name is anathema in the South, where Republicans this year hope to pick up some electoral votes even against Lyndon Johnson. Texas' National Committeeman Albert Fay bitterly remembers how Vice Presidential Candidate Lodge, without consulting anyone, made a Harlem speech pledging the Nixon Administration to appoint a Negro as a Cabinet member. Nixon publicly disavowed the promise, but the damage was done. "That murdered us in Texas," says Fay, who also canceled a Lodge appearance in Houston when Lodge refused to stay at a segregated hotel. Says Florida State Chairman Tom Fairfield Brown: "You know, when...
...intellectual capacities well employed, especially in the acquiring of an education in the liberal arts and sciences." Instructions to the electors interpert "intellectual capacities well employed" more narrowly as "scholarship." "Good character" is also relevant (PBK presumably excludes outright criminals), but the phrase "achievement in extracurricular activities" is an anathema...
...There is no reason why we should not talk of this. One of the things I like about America is the crazy contradictoriness of American life. It is sheer delight for me to think of all those superpatriots in Texas and California, who would find Senator Javits anathema-andnot only because he is a liberal-whooping it up for dear old Barry. And it is a sheer delight to think of the paradox of Catholics deciding that Kennedy is too radical for them, and rooting for Goldwater, while Jews will be unmoved by Goldwater's Jewish ties and will...
Under the leadership of Chief Justice Warren, the Supreme Court has aggrieved a great many Americans. Its civil rights decisions are anathema to Southern segregationists; its careful attention toward civil liberties encourages the far right to call for Warren's impeachment...
...years since then have not diminished the spirit of Kompromisslosigkeit -no compromise-that guides both Die Zeit and its foreign editor. To Bonn and most West Germans, East Germany is anathema. But the Grafin has persistently advocated closer contacts with the other side of the Wall. "The Iron Curtain does not protect us from Eastern infiltration," read a recent editorial, "but cuts the Eastern countries off from the infiltration of freedom." The Grafin has visited East Germany twice; once, when a group of East German writers were refused permission by West German police to pay a return visit to Hamburg...