Word: anathemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...directions at once, yelling bloody murder. The New York Times quoted General Electric's Vice President William R. Burrows as calling them "speed-up committees," likened them to the Murray Industrial Councils plan to give labor a voice in management. To labor leaders, "speed-up" was anathema...
...list of Hollywood's worst of 1941. But unlike every other year, the denunciation, which included Betty Grable and Veronica Lake among other poor unfortunates, has not raised any authoritative answering blast from the Coast. It has been suggested that film people are becoming hardened to the annual anathema roll, and that a permanent end has come to the happy little tussles between the 'Poen and the stars...
...scores but hundreds of sitdowns, slowdowns and other forms of production sabotage, now propose that they are the capable ones to guide . . . production for war." The issue was clear: the union wanted power to help control production policies; to management, the idea of giving the union such power was anathema...
...York City launched its experiment, called the "activity program," in 70 schools six years ago. Though handicapped by old-fashioned teachers and old-fashioned schoolrooms with fixed desks (anathema to Progressives, who like to give children room to paint, hammer, build), the experimental schools scrapped their formal curriculum and educated their pupils by "activities," e.g., keeping store, building a post office, taking an imaginary trip to California. Pupils picked up reading, writing and reckoning (with teachers' help) as they carried on their activities, instead of by formal drill...
...have never been so pleased over anything in my life. . . . The BBC is anathema to me. . . . There are Americans who still think English people are Bertie Woosters calling each other 'Milord' and I thought the Wodehouse broadcasts would be very helpful to people like Burton Wheeler...