Word: anathemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...purely hedonistic." Nor did the Anglican tradition of religious tolerance appeal to that fierce Celt-blooded primitive. He required "a faith as simple and emotional as himself." By Jackson's time the power of the evangelists over the whole Southern mind was so great that "skepticism . . . was anathema, and lack of frenetic zeal was . . . heresy." In such a mind pure hedonism and iron puritanism could lie down together without fighting over the blankets -and without, as Cash repeatedly points out, a trace of conscious hypocrisy. "There was much of Tartarin in this Southerner, but nothing of Tartufe...
...event which must have given Mitsuru Toyama greatest satisfaction of all last week was the convocation of the Diet. Parliamentary forms have always been the cardinal anathema to the secret societies. Last week's convocation indicated that the forms were very nearly dead. In the pompous Diet building in Tokyo, Emperor Hirohito made a one-minute speech to the members, who were as stray and divided as sheep. They had dissolved their political parties and their lobbying machines. They had no aims, no organization, no hope. Their first and only act was to adjourn until January 20. Then...
...drank himself to death and of how he just played because he loved jazz and the hell with the money anyway. Finally, any statements to the effect that Benny might not have been the greatest, most moving, relaxed, sincere, inviolated clarinetist in the world, will automatically become anathema...
...came the payoff. The Janizariat had plugged for Supreme Court Justice Douglas, whom they regard as the "killer" member of their group. But Franklin Roosevelt blithely ignored their wishes, personally selected Secretary Wallace-a man who has been anathema to the Janizariat since he first purged the Agriculture Department of Jerome Frank and other Corcoran...