Word: anathemae
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...should try to use that skepticism about the plan as a bargaining counter?against French privilege. According to the French, Britain tried to trade possible support for the monetary plan in exchange for reform of the Nine's longstanding agricultural policy, which is sacrosanct to subsidized French farmers and anathema to British housewives, who believe it has raised their food prices. The French were having none of it. "We cannot link the monetary problem to the agricultural question," snapped a French foreign ministry official. But the British called it basic fair play. Countered a Tory M.P.: "The hypocritical French have...
...westerns and detective films. He lives alone, having a year ago banished from public view a third wife, Jovanka, 32 years his junior. She had apparently incurred Tito's displeasure by promoting the careers of army officers who shared her Serbian background. That kind of partisan behavior is anathema to Tito, a native Croatian, who has held together the six-nation Yugoslav coalition by sternly avoiding any appearance of ethnic favoritism...
More than anywhere else, this disease is reflected in the press. In-depth analysis of a problem is anathema to the press. There is a dangerous tendency to form a herd, shutting off successful development [of independent thought]. I have received letters in America from highly intelligent persons, maybe a teacher in a far-away small college, who could do much for the renewal and salvation of this country, but his country does not hear him because the media are not interested...
Wrong notes intrude; unlike almost all modern artists, he neither practiced be fore the sessions ("Practicing is tedious anathema to me") nor redubbed passages to smooth out errors. In a final heresy, he embraces sentimentality, the witch word of the 20th century. "The more gushing, the better," he proclaims...
...right to participation in the determination of their own future," but it still rejects such phrases as "Palestinian problem in all its aspects" or "legitimate rights of the Palestinian people" on the ground that such words imply a Palestinian state on the West Bank−a concept that is anathema to Jerusalem. All in all, the two sides remained uncomfortably far apart...