Word: anathemas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anglo-Saxons are anathema to the French: the British because of their attitude on the Ruhr question; the Americans because of their objection to Negroes frequenting the same places of amusement as they...
Short sleeves and low-necked dresses are anathema at the Vatican, according to a ruling recently pointed out by Monsignor Marmaggi, newly appointed Apostolic Delegate from Yugo-Slavia, to a group of fashionable ladies who wished to visit the Pope...
...Anathema is the Inquiring Spirit, the Searcher after Truth, who goes to the gates of Heaven to ask God what his weights and measures are for determining Justice. When God tells him that he would not understand, that the divine values are too inscrutable, Anathema goes, back to earth vowing to show the irony and misery of God's justice to his creature Man. He picks out a Jew, David Leizer, and bestows upon him an inheritance of two million dollars, which he exhorts him to give away to the poor for the glory of God. David does...
...Faust motif in David's brief hour of the pleasure of giving which will cease when the last kopeck is gone; there is the Job motif in the curse that he suffers; there is a touch of Milton's Satan in the heroic defiance of Anathema; there is a strong suggestion of Stephen in the stoning of a Christlike man by the people "who know not what they...
Heywood Broun: . . . " Anathema was disappointing...