Word: anathemas
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...capitalize them, insert them in outline from: Be sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all exams insist 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 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...
...school, Za'kettha Blaylock knows that even dreaming of success can mean living a nightmare. She would, above all things, like to work hard, go to college and become a doctor. But to many other black 14-year-old girls in her corner of Oakland, these ideas are anathema. The telephone rings in her family's modest apartment, and the anonymous voice murmurs daggers. "We're gonna kill you," the caller says. Za'kettha knows the threat comes from a gang of black girls, one that specializes not in drugs or street fights but in terrorizing bright black students. "They...
...nomination," George Bush said in 1979. But as it wasn't for Rockefeller, so it wasn't for Bush. Unlike Rocky, though, Bush finally got the message. To join Ronald Reagan's 1980 ticket, the man who had supported Planned Parenthood and a host of liberal domestic positions anathema to the right reinvented himself as a "reformed" pro-lifer and social-policy conservative...
...report includes a policy that clearly defines rape, sexual assault and sexual misconduct as anathema to the Harvard and Radcliffe community. The policy forcefully states the refusal to accept these behaviors and the commitment to work to eliminate and address this problem both internally and in conjunction with the criminal justice system...
These friends' families are all as religious as the Pope. What separates them from many families in our society is that they realize that morality, to be pertinent to life, must be person-centered. They are against pre-marital sexual intercourse. But instead of making their children anathema when they get pregnant or get their girl-friends pregnant, they choose to help them...