Word: anathemas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Common Drive. "You should not declare anathema what you do not know," answered French Socialist Leader François Mitterrand, who has made himself chief spokesman for the Southern Socialist position. He argued that Western Europe's Communist parties are changing, becoming more independent of Moscow, sloughing off archaic Stalinist ideology. Socialists, therefore, can safely ally themselves with Communists in a common leftist drive for power. Mitterrand's views have been challenged as being too ingenuous about Communist intentions, most recently in The Totalitarian Temptation, a new book by disillusioned Socialist Jean-François Revel (TIME...
...Ford was expected to repudiate a bill that Labor Secretary John Dunlop had eased through Congress. Part of the bill is favored by the AFL-CIO but is anathema to the right wing of the G.O.P.: it would allow a single local of craftsmen-for example, carpenters-to picket and thus close down an entire building project. The White House received more than half a million pieces of mail opposing the "common situs" picketing bill. Said one adviser to the President's campaign: "If he doesn't veto situs picketing, he's dead...
Banfield recalls his years here slightly differently. He doesn't remember students being rude to him, and says there was no "hostile disagreement." But, he says, "Nobody was ever indifferent to me at Harvard Everything I said was an anathema to some, bitter pills to swallow--but I never checked to see if anybody ever swallowed them...
Feminists who argued for more immediate goals for women, most notably their right to birth control and abortion, are likely to be disappointed. Such provisions will probably never be included in the final plan of action, if only because they are anathema to church and government in many nations...
...Benn from his Cabinet; to do so would only aggravate the party wounds that Wilson now hopes to heal. But to restore confidence in his government's ability to check inflation, Wilson will probably shift Benn-whose proposals to step up public ownership of industry have made him anathema to Britain's business and financial community-to a less economically powerful Cabinet ministry...