Word: anathemas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deals, the Eisenhower Ad ministration helped set a course for the new conservative. Instead of returning to a dog-eat-dog economy. Administration trustbusters have vigilantly policed big business. The Administration has expanded social security, federal aid to hospitals, low-cost housing subsidies and other programs that were once anathema to the standpat conservative. The most significant contribution of Eisenhower Republicanism, argues Hart Schaffner & Marx President Meyer Kestnbaum, onetime C.E.D. chairman and Eisenhower adviser, is that it has encouraged businessmen to "face social problems rather than ignore them, to seek first for an answer in individual and com pany initiative...
Ideologies are anathema to Kirk, but he is also disturbed by the U.S. habits of "getting and spending." Here he becomes somewhat vague, as if he chose to ignore the fact that the good and full life can at the same time be a prosperous life. But he is most irked by the whining sort of U.S. intellectual who sets himself apart, "a species of dilettante who prides himself on being different, for no particular reason and with no particular duties." The men of this breed must find Kirk a very peculiar intellectual indeed. Can he mean it when...
...Anathema on Foreigners. Tampering with history, Novelist Schiemer brings his officers' revolt to a bad end, and with it Dirk's romance. The bloody mob riots that result in the burning of Shepheard's Hotel lead Major Khaled and a few other hothead officers to try an overnight coup. Dirk is jailed briefly and ordered to leave the country. When Aziza and clan hear of his disgrace, he gets an even quicker brushoff. As Aziza screams her parting words, they seem almost like an Egyptian anathema on all foreigners: "Son of a dog! I'll find...
...made the first gesture towards putting things back together again. Between the two center groups, said Faure, "there is no real opposition on the big problems." His proposition: "a temporary union" of left-and right-wing moderates. The right-wingers let it be known that Mendès was anathema to them, but hinted that they might accept a Socialist like Mollet or Christian Pineau for Premier...
...very liberal friend of mine, experienced in politics on the national level, no longer thinks Stevenson would be the strongest candidate. This friend is convinced that Sen. Symington has more vote appeal than anyone else. Sen. Kefauver still has a following. But he is anathema to the bosses and probably could not be nominated. I hear Sen. Lyndon Johnson has Presidential ambitions. And there are others...