Word: anathemas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Think about it: I have to dress up in fancy clothes, anathema number one. In front of hundreds of my peers I must dance to music that I never heard during my small-town upbringing. It is probably more painful for others to watch me humiliate myself on the dance floor than...
This proposal, designed to head off global warming, has gone nowhere, despite the efforts of the United Nations Environment Program to forge a worldwide treaty limiting the release of carbon dioxide. In the U.S., a primary producer of CO2, new taxes are anathema to the current Administration in any case. The President has declared that global warming is a problem that needs study, not immediate action...
Jesse Jackson, a D.L.C. pariah, was invited to speak this year. His hymnbook has been anathema to this crowd (whom he once branded "Democrats for the leisure class"), but their plan to stop Jackson on Super Tuesday in 1988 failed so miserably that they may have to face the prospect of Jackson preaching to a crossover audience. In the meantime, with its teeny, tiny programs designed to assure voters that Democrats are as committed to life, liberty and the pursuit of an upwardly mobile life-style as Republicans, the D.L.C. is rewriting the lyrics of the 1960s song...
...completion. Just as he knew no other way to contact a student but by leaving a message with the superintendent, so he could not comprehend the possibility of forsaking a personal matter once it had touched him. He felt an obligation to the individual; specialized administrative categorization was anathema...
...them, inset them in outline form: be sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all exams insist at at the top, "Illustrate;" "Be specific;" etc? They mean it. The 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 blue book 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...