Word: anathemae
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Much of what the black conservatives advocate is anathema to traditional civil rights leaders. In effect, they would reduce the Federal Government's role as an aggressive advocate of special protection for minorities and leave it up to blacks to rise or fall on their own. At seminars on "Rethinking the Black Agenda," including one held last week in Washington, speakers have urged such drastic shifts in federal policy as scrapping the minimum wage for teen-agers and cutting back affirmative action in hiring and university admissions...
...bold and promising initiative. Or that the plan was taken seriously by the 20 Arab nations holding a summit last week in Fez, Morocco. To the proud and stubborn Israeli leader, whose cooperation in any Middle East peace process would be essential, the whole idea of the plan was anathema. "It no longer exists," Begin said sharply. Then, almost as an afterthought, he added: "The friendship between Israel and the U.S. still exists...
...addition, Saddam's aggressively secular, socialist regime has long been anathema to Khomeini's philosophy of government, which insists on the clergy's God-given right to rule. With its 55% Shi'ite majority and Shi'ite shrines at An Najaf and Karbala, Iraq should, in Khomeini's view, be the natural home of a sister Islamic republic...
That idea is anathema to practically every state in the Middle East and is an indication of the extent to which an Iranian victory over Iraq is causing fear and consternation throughout the region. Saddam Hussein may somehow survive in spite of his army's defeat, but he is vulnerable because he is a Sunni Muslim in a country whose population is 60% Shi'ite, the branch to which Iran's Ayatullah belongs. Although Saddam Hussein could be replaced by another Sunni, the gulf states are most worried by the thought of a Shi'ite government...
...from voting for Parliament or holding offices of public trust. Only in the early 19th century did the laity, against the wishes of the Catholic hierarchy, work out a formula that combined political loyalty to the Crown with spiritual loyalty to the Pope. Though the Vatican never withdrew its anathema against the Crown, this year's diplomatic recognition relegates it to history's dustbin. Catholics regained full citizenship rights in 1829, the English hierarchy was re-established in 1850, and devout Catholics were allowed to graduate from Oxford and Cambridge by 1871. In this historical context, British Catholics...