Word: anathemae
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Over the past several months, at least three Harvard scholars have said they have worked for the CIA doing restricted research. Anathema to widely accepted scholarly codes, the restrictions prohibited disclosure of the CIA's sponsorship and forbade publication without agency review. The professors' actions have raised concerns that Harvard's own rules are not sufficient to discourage this kind of activity...
...news: Moscow's plan offers a significant reduction in the weapons that Washington considers most threatening, warheads deployed atop land-based strategic missiles. There was some bad news too: the Soviet method of counting weapons so distorts strategic realities that it is simply unacceptable to the U.S. Equally an anathema to the Reagan Administration is the continued Soviet insistence that the U.S. abandon its Strategic Defense Initiative, commonly known as Star Wars...
Probably at no other university is it such anathema to live off-campus. A crucial part of a Harvard students' academic and social life centers around the Houses. No matter how such time a student spends in the libraries or in extra-curricular activities, there is no substitute for the good times and bad times transfers are new to Harvard, in effect virtual freshmen, the isolation is even worse. Instead of becoming part of "the Harvard experience," they are left on the outside looking in, feeling like second-class students. "I don't feel like a Harvard student. I feel...
...within the U.S. seeking to damage the new trend in relations. The Kremlin ridiculed the Warren Commission's conclusion that Oswald had acted on his own. There was widespread speculation among Soviet diplomats that Lyndon Johnson, along with the CIA and the Mafia, had masterminded the plot. Johnson was anathema to Khrushchev. Because he was a Southerner, Moscow considered him a racist (the stereotype of any American politician from below the Mason-Dixon line), an anti-Soviet, and anti-Communist to boot. Further, since Johnson was from Texas, a center of the reactionary forces in the U.S., according...
...capitalize them, inset them in outline form: be sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all exams insist at the top, "Illustrate"; "Be specific"; etc.? They mean it. The illustrations, of course, need not be singularly relevant; but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered throughout your blue book will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's list, Name at least the titles of every other book Hume wrote; don't just say Medieval cathedrals, name mine think up a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence" like...