Word: anathemae
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...White's (founded 1693) and Brooks's (founded 1764) are primarily social, nonpolitical clubs, but as the qualifications for membership are background, breeding and wealth, they are naturally Tory strongholds. Other Laborites enter Brooks's and White's without causing any commotion, but Bevan is anathema to British bluebloods. In a speech in 1948 he had blatantly proclaimed: "Tories are lower than vermin...
...Party members get more and better food, housing, clothing and recreation than the mass of the people, who live in darkness because they know not Marx. Anyone who suggests that Communists live like ordinary people is guilty of a heresy called egalitarianism, upon which the great Lenin himself pronounced anathema...
...plead the city's case at Bonn, sometimes to meet with the Minister-Presidents of the eleven Western Länder (states), sometimes to confer with Socialist Party colleagues. Whenever time permitted, he traveled by car on the Autobahn through the Soviet zone, even though he was anathema to the Russians; he was determined to assert the Berliners' right of free access to their city...
...Titoism" has spread to Japan. The Cominform Journal last week pronounced anathema on sleepy-eyed Sanzo Nozaka, long considered Japan's No. 1 Red. His sin: he had "uttered bourgeois platitudes," i.e., he had contradicted the customary Communist charge that the U.S. is being imperialistic in Japan, had insisted that the Communist Party could establish a "people's democratic regime" under the U.S. occupation...
Under modern church law anathema is a grim ritual in which the person who has incurred the wrath of the Roman Catholic Church is excommunicated and condemned to "eternal fire with Satan" to save his soul on judgment...