Word: anathemas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more troubling is the image of doctors jeopardizing their patients by going on strike. On those grounds, Albert Yellin, a Los Angeles vascular surgeon, opposed the unionization last month of 800 Los Angeles County physicians. "Using our patients as hostages to gain things within our own self-interest is anathema to our whole mission," he says...
...discovered that women's mention of the physical body in their letters was practically anathema...
...since Peninsula's fortune seems to be the result of a Great Depression in campus tensions, we'll engage in a little Keynesianism (anathema, we realize, as it is to Peninsula's spirit) and prime the pump of vituperation, with some social service attack poetry...
...illustrations, of course, need not be singularly relevant; but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered throughout your bluebook will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume wrote; don't just say Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence," like Natalie Wood. If you can't come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid clink of pseudo-facts...
Finally, be able to make intelligent trade-offs. Though missing any of the action is anathema, academic survival may sometimes dictate...