Word: anathemas
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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...
...fans of Joseph McCarthy. In the '70s there was a mass immigration of mugged liberals -- the neoconservatives. Communism acted on all these grouplets as a powerful unifying force. Whether you wanted an American Century or a minimal state, you could not be comfortable with Soviet aggrandizement. Lenin was anathema whether your philosophical polestar was Thomas Aquinas or Ayn Rand. Like an offensive guest at a lousy party, Communism drew together a lot of people who would otherwise have been standoffish...
...Administration prefers a less spacious definition. But attempts to limit the scope of the anathema make it meaningless. According to State Department legal adviser Abraham Sofaer, assassination is the "unlawful killing of particular individuals for political purposes." The key word is "unlawful." It's not unlawful to kill combatants in wartime, or even to kill noncombatant civilians in the course of a legitimate military operation. It is "self- defense" to kill a head of state who is masterminding terrorist operations that threaten the national security of the U.S., the argument goes. But if the assassination ban forbids nothing that...