Word: anathemae
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...approve of his current performance in office; 67% think that he knew about the Watergate coverup; 59% feel that 18½ minutes of a crucial tape were deliberately erased because they would have proved his involvement in the coverup. A year ago, the idea of impeaching the President was anathema to great numbers of Americans. There remains a nagging reluctance to get rid of him, but the public has moved considerably closer to sanctioning this momentous step. The most recent Gallup poll indicates a 46%-to-46% split on whether Nixon should resign. A total of 37% now favor impeachment...
Perhaps Solzhenitsyn's boldest and most dangerous assertion concerns a former Red Army general who is anathema to the Soviets. He was Andrei Vlasov, who commanded Russian units in the German army after 1942. Although Solzhenitsyn does not condone Vlasov's wartime defection, he praises him as "one of the most talented" of the Soviet generals who conducted the earlier defense of Moscow...
Trendy Pendulum. How long it will take him to decide to leave Columbo is, therefore, anybody's guess. Falk has characterized the shuffling little detective so completely that his moves are now almost completely predictable, with the kind of sameness that is anathema to an actor of Falk's ability. Falk's contract has three years to run, and those around him do not expect him to remain longer. "I'm not tired of Columbo yet," he says. "But I'm getting close...
...audience who applauds the movie claps for a world which their own situation has rendered irrelevant. It is finally a highly conservative applause. For the message that romanticizes the female rebel, but balks before the women's rebellion, is anathema to any committed feminist. It feeds nothing but a counter-revolutionary fervor, one barren of relevance, one that lowers rather than raises consciousness...
...That is anathema to the Perónist left, which has demanded that the army's internal-security functions be carried out by a popular militia...