Word: anathemas
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...capitalize them, inset them in outline form: 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, sparking 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...
Dumas is becoming a symbol of a growing belief among blacks that busing is not the solution to the ferocious problems afflicting inner-city schools. In the past, all-black schools were considered by many blacks and white liberals an anathema to be destroyed by court order. No longer. They are a growing phenomenon in urban America, as whites continue to flee to the suburbs. Unlike the institutions created by the forced segregation that existed until the Supreme Court outlawed the practice in 1954, these schools are a function of changing demography, not of statutes. Disillusioned and frustrated...
...says Mark Clark, president of the city's largest police union. "She worked her way to the top. She never had anything given to her." The same refrain is heard during a gripe session with beat cops at a police station in a rough neighborhood. To them, Brown was anathema, an outsider, but Watson is almost family. About the harshest assessment of Watson came from a sergeant: "When she was a patrolman, she couldn't ride the streets. So you can't blame her for not having that experience. But you can blame her for not listening to those...
Most Republicans find the idea of raising income taxes anathema -- unless they can get a capital-gains tax cut in exchange. That swap was contemplated during the long-running budget summit, but discarded as politically unfeasible. It resurfaced briefly last week, when Republican Congressman William Archer of Texas claimed that Bush had said "without equivocation" that he supported Archer's plan for lifting the top income tax rate to 31% while slashing the tax on capital gains to 15%. Once again the trade-off was shot down. The main reason: Archer's plan would lower taxes on incomes over...
...backbone of the home-school movement is the Christian Fundamentalist community, which believes that religion is either abused or ignored in the classroom. Other parents reject public education for more conventional reasons: poor academic standards, overcrowding, safety. The most uncompromising group call themselves "unschoolers," viewing as anathema any notion of educational structure...