Word: anathemas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Party's spokesman in the House for 20 years and presided with smooth skill over five G.O.P. presidential nominating conventions. Though he fought fierce rearguard actions against Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, he later supported foreign aid in the days when it was anathema to many Republicans; his conservatism was easily accommodated in support of more liberal Dwight Eisenhower. Indeed, party loyalty always meant more to Joe Martin than programmatic polemics...
Refound Ancestors. The art that followed-nonobjective, nonemotional and nonutilitarian-was, and for the most part still is, anathema to the common man. To the suprematists, it was an epochal breakthrough, even though Malevich later recalled that he felt "a kind of timidity bordering on fear when I was called upon to leave the world of will and idea in which I had lived and worked; but the blissful feeling of liberating nonobjectivity drew me into the desert, where nothing is real but feeling...
...aristocrats, OEO Boss Sargent Shriver and Illinois State Treasurer Adlai Stevenson III, were interested in the Governor's chair that Democrat Otto Kerner is relinquishing this year. Neither was overly eager for the tougher assignment of trying to unhorse Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, 72. And both were anathema to Daley's party regulars...
...more of the heavily Negro counties. From each county convention, they could send insurgent delegations to the state convention. There, they could offer a series of embarrassing resolutions--supporting LBJ, equal opportunity, full Negro participation in party affairs, and whatever else is dear to the national Democrats and anathema to Mississippi...
Actually, pain and violence are anathema to the Intentional Community. Says Judith Malina: "We are a terrible lot of moralists. We are trying to live together in peace, not only saying that the U.S. should disarm, but that we should not scream at one another in rehearsals-or if we do it, to understand why." The collective ideal seems to fall between the Group Theater of the '30s and a 19th century Utopian experiment like Brook Farm. Actress Jenny Hecht, daughter of Ben Hecht, puts it this way: "I want to live with people close, in a state...