Word: anathemas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stalwart knob of a head and then to subside into nothingness and the realm of forgotten dailies. Such was the destined fate of the Critic, it was said, when that publication was relegated last spring to what the defunct Liberal was pleased to call its whited sepulchre.--under the anathema "they did not publish," and it is true that the Critic has again made up its mind to walk the face of the early...
...genuinely did not want to have his picture in the papers. Publicity was necessary to his parents, and acceptable to his sister and brothers. But to Franklin Jr., who sought the easy camaraderie of other Harvard freshmen, which he could not have as a publicized personage, it was anathema...
...Versailles by the refurbishment of Germany under Hitler, with the result that a territorial realignment now looms. Obviously, the likeliest power at whose expense this realignment could be accomplished is Russia; in that way a war of mutual destruction could be avoided and a political system which is anathema to the powers could be crushed. It is this possibility which has caused the recent outbreak of political hypochondria in Moscow; and even though it is only a possibility, it is still of sufficient magnitude to warrant the case of jitters that it has provoked. NEMO...
...confession is not in sympathy with these trends which be believes to be inevitable; as a liberal be must resent the collapse of the system of liberal capitalism. But there is nothing that can be done about it and while the methods which he advocates are anathema to him, it is evident that they must be utilized as a means of survival...
...founded eight years ago. They advocate a change not in theological doctrine but in church services, with pastors wearing proper vestments, decking their altars with flowers and tapers, emphasizing the crucifix, reviving traditional Lutheran rubrics, singing only the purest liturgical music. These practices, common in Scandinavian Lutheran churches, are anathema in many a U. S. parish where Lutheranism is austere and puritanical. The liturgists argue that what they want is nothing new. Martin Luther called a mass a mass. He favored vestments, tapers and incense; genuflected and even approved of private confession. And Luther, who wrote "A Mighty Fortress...