Word: anathemae
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...past 3½ years has taped hundreds of hours of interviews with 50 imprisoned skyjackers, worked with airline crews to develop techniques for handling piracy, and outlined his ideas in a 1971 book called The Skyjacker: His Flights of Fantasy (Macmillan; $5.95). Hubbard's go-easy approach is anathema to get-tough FBI officials and many pilots. But there is some evidence that it works: Hubbard has personally stage-managed the peaceful surrender of three hijackers...
...many of his positions. At the same time and partly for the same reason, three out of four voters, including half of his supporters, agree completely or partly that McGovern is "indecisive." In a country that seems to be growing more conservative, the tag "radical" is more than ever anathema. Add the image of weakness, and the result is a formula for overwhelming defeat...
...American political lexicon: quota. The Democratic reforms this year employed a kind of quota system to require more representation among the delegates for women, blacks and young people. Many Democrats were themselves disturbed by the quotas; at Miami Beach, the President and other G.O.P. speakers damned them as anathema to the American system. The resonance of the issue may well carry through the campaign...
Although it is essential to studying the secrets of life, dissection of the dead was anathema to laymen for many centuries. Emperors and popes once forbade the practice, forcing physicians to utilize the services of body snatchers who, as late as the 19th century, obtained cadavers in midnight graveyard forays. One British ghoul, William Burke, was hanged in 1829 for creating instant specimens out of innocent wayfarers. As late as the 1960s, medical schools relied upon unclaimed bodies and found even these in short supply...
...Stern blackballed? In such cases, the academic and political reasons tend to blur together. On the one hand, Stern writes slowly and reputedly mistreats graduate students. On the other hand, his record in the Columbia strike was mushy left, which was anathema to conservatives like Handlin...