Word: anathemae
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...Typographical Union No. 6, has forced the New York dailies to retain archaic machinery and procedures. Automation would allow the Times, for one thing, to phase out Linotype machines (a 19th century invention) and install computers that can set type directly from edited copy. Such moves have been anathema to the printers in the past. Ten years ago Powers was the key figure in a disastrous four-month strike. Now he says that he is willing to discuss automation...
...Manhattan, president-elect of the American Psychoanalytic Association, emphasizes that such chauvinism "isn't implicit in the theory of analysis." Psychiatric theories of personality, he observes, do not hold women inferior to men. True, many psychiatrists accept Freud's famous "anatomy is destiny" dictum, which is anathema to feminists. To professionals, though, the doctrine does not condemn women to second-class citizenship; it means only that, as Hartford Psychoanalyst Rebecca Solomon puts it, "Women have to cope psychologically with the facts of their biology. They are human beings who have the capacity to procreate whether they choose...
...realism inherent in post-Modernist literature; in this, I mean the tedious reproduction of lived life naturalism, as opposed to the rich tradition of European Realism, which exaggerated human experience, celebrated a wide historical consciousness, and reconciled real conditions with desire. No reader, to whom what is actual is anathema, would quarrel with Osip Mandelstam's axiom that "The only thing that is real is the work itself;" when he concludes, though, that the artist "desires no other paradise than existence," Mandelstam reveals the divergence between readers and artists. Existence, which to the writer is a paradise...
...scholars must be able to keep their sources of information secret. But it is one of the prime requisites of scholarship that one's sources be public and subject to verification by others. In this society, secrecy is often a good and-or necessary thing, but it is officially anathema to scholarship...
...perused Sarris's collected criticism two years ago, it appeared that Sarris was mellowing, speaking more often than before with some logic and extra-film development, indulging once in what to most acteurists was anathema--social criticism (in a useful review of The Great White Hope). Judging from the Voice's last volume, and sundry other writings. I was wrong. His current critical canon has included predictable praise for Frenzy (and a pre-review luncheon with Hitchcock himself), approval of The Man because it at least wasn't critical about politicians (some deep cynicism in an order, I would think...