Word: anathemas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rosovsky seems to have entered office as somewhat of a compromise candidate between the two wings of Faculty opinion. He is acceptable to conservatives, and not the anathema to liberals that James Q. Wilson, professor of Government and an early front-runner for the post, would have been...
...desired. Those are the same people, of course, who needlessly prolonged the Vietnam war by encouraging the enemy, and most Americans know it. With very few exceptions -- about a third of the readership of The New York Daily News, some grizzled Democratic pros to whom anything Republican is anathema, a few militant blacks left over from the sixties, maybe a couple of housewives who never really warmed up to the President, and most of the guys in the union halls of Muncie, Indiana -- the American people believe, and want to believe, that the President knew nothing about Watergate. And with...
Loyalty to a President is, of course, desirable in a department official, although Gray's zeal sounds extreme. It is not at all appropriate, however, in a police official whose agency prides itself on arriving objectively at facts. A political police force is obviously anathema to a democracy. It may well have been asking far too much to expect Gray to abandon such deeply held attitudes after he was shifted...
...city's reform Democrats, who provided much of the support for Lindsay's successful campaign for re-election in 1969, have come to view the Mayor as an anathema. Besides the fact that his popularity has hit an all-time low with the people, the reformers feel that "Long John" sold them out after 1969 when he failed to join and support their faction of the party...
...Typographical Union No. 6, has forced the New York dailies to retain archaic machinery and procedures. Automation would allow the Times, for one thing, to phase out Linotype machines (a 19th century invention) and install computers that can set type directly from edited copy. Such moves have been anathema to the printers in the past. Ten years ago Powers was the key figure in a disastrous four-month strike. Now he says that he is willing to discuss automation...