Word: anathemas
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...Communist opposition to Chiang Kai-shek's nationalist regime, Liang helped form the rural reconstruction movement that sought to create a new China on the backs of a liberated and mobilized peasantry. After the Communist victory in 1949, Liang's Confucian orientation towards rural reform became anathema, but because Mao knew Liang personally, aside from one campaign against him in the mid-fifties, Liang has managed to live quietly in Peking for the last 30 years...
Battle lines are also being drawn over legislation before the Cortes (parliament) concerning two bitterly divisive issues: legalized divorce and secular education. Both measures are not only anathema to the still powerful Roman Catholic hierarchy, but are also hotly contested by the left, which wants even greater reform. Such controversies point up the paralyzing disunity within Suárez's own Union of the Democratic Center, which is less a political party than a loose coalition of moderates ranging from centrist liberals to former Franco conservatives...
...liberal Governor Michael S. Dukakis, who now teaches public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, lost in the gubernatorial primary to old-style Democrat Edward J. King. A Kennedy drubbing would deligh King, who beat liberal Republican Frank Hatch and took office last January. He has since become anathema to government officials who have a reputation to lose. King is actively campaigning for Carter, undoubtedly hoping for a mandate against Kennedy's policies to make things less pleasant for liberals in the state--especially Kennedy himself and freshman Sen. Paul Tsongas...
While wage and price controls are still anathema to the vast majority of economists and White House policymakers, a rising chorus is beginning to demand their imposition. Senator Edward Kennedy has centered the economic proposals of his presidential campaign on a six-month wage and price freeze. Barry Bosworth, who directed the Carter inflation guidelines program for two years, now favors mandatory controls. Even a number of conservatives are reluctantly swinging toward controls. Brookings Institution President Bruce MacLaury now supports wage and price restrictions, and Wall Street Banker Henry Kaufman says controls can make a "marginal contribution" in fighting inflation...
...worth noting the three basic speech patterns of Greek tragedy. Hecuba embarks on a lamentation that might be called the first language of the Middle East, stretching around the Mediterranean crescent from the Wailing Wall of Jerusalem to the melancholy, snakelike flutes of the Casbah. The second mode is anathema, the curse absolute. The third is the speech of self-absolution. Protagonists in Greek plays never blame themselves for their actions. Either the gods made them do it, or their enemies are culpable or they are the victims of tyche: luck or blind chance...