Word: anathemas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Backed by the Communist bloc, the Demo-Christians easily pushed through (410 votes to 34) a bill drafted by Interior Minister Mario Scelba. whose name is usually anathema to the Reds. In rendering Fascism illegal, the Scelba law does a serviceable job of defining it. It bans any movement that 1) "exalts, threatens or uses violence"; 2) "advocates the suppression of [Constitutional] freedoms"; 3) engages in "racial propaganda"; 4) "denigrates democracy." Penalties: for Fascist activity, three to ten years in jail; for the Fascist salute, three months...
...Ridgway's advisers would like to keep the Dai Ichi Building (No. 1 symbol of the occupation), the Imperial Hotel, the Ernie Pyle Theater and a host of lesser buildings and facilities in the Tokyo area. Even more important, particularly in the Orient where the word itself is anathema, the Army wants complete extraterritoriality for its military and civilian personnel. The prospect of such privileges led one member of the Japanese House of Councilors to speak of "a new occupation...
...name of Pablo Picasso has been officially anathema in his native Spain ever since Franco. Last week it fluttered through the conversation of Madrid's arty set as persistently as one of the master's mechanical Communist peace doves. While suspicious plainclothesmen strained to detect something subversive in the highbrow cafe controversies, the government wondered how to suppress Spain's liveliest and most political art wrangle in 15 years...
...popular choice-was Admiral Arthur W. Radford, boss of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Brilliant, bluntly outspoken, Airman Radford was Airman Sherman's own choice to succeed him two years hence. But popular "Raddy" Radford had led the Navy's revolt against unification in 1949, was anathema to the Air Force, whose giant B-36 bomber he scornfully labeled a "billion-dollar blunder," and had been called a "fancy Dan" by Omar Bradley. The morning before Sherman's funeral, Radford went to Navy Secretary Dan Kimball, asked that his name be withdrawn for the good of the Navy...
...White's (founded 1693) and Brooks's (founded 1764) are primarily social, nonpolitical clubs, but as the qualifications for membership are background, breeding and wealth, they are naturally Tory strongholds. Other Laborites enter Brooks's and White's without causing any commotion, but Bevan is anathema to British bluebloods. In a speech in 1948 he had blatantly proclaimed: "Tories are lower than vermin...