Word: anathemas
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Gunn is not alone in psychologically violating the play. There should be a good deal of Juliet in Desdemona. After all, she is a virginal young girl swept into sensual love with the Moor, who is anathema to her father in much the same way that a Montague was to a Capulet. But Roberta Maxwell conjures up a prim housewife somewhat baffled by a hubby with a bad case of the sulks. Sne achieves an affecting poignance only in her deathbed speech. As for lago, he should be Lucifer's child trailing a brimstone stench of evil...
...refer here, of course, to a true decide widely held, not to that deceitful McCarthy kind which merely masks a drive for power. Much of the explanation for the growth among us of intolerant attitudes and the acceptance of destructive styles of behavior which should be anathema in academic societies is undoubtedly to be found in such considerations...
Under the austere Socialist regime of Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere, miniskirts, cosmetics and wigs are anathema, and beauty contests are banned as "exploitations of human flesh." Small wonder, then, that the government frowned on a visit by "Miss World," Austria's Eva Reuber-Staier. "A society which annually parades its women like cattle to award them prizes," puffed a government newspaper, is "alien to our culture and sense of dignity." Purred Eva: "I am very sorry not to be going to Tanzania. I hear it's a wonderful country -with some very handsome cattle...
...Anathema. Anathema. Anathema. To Vladimir Lenin and to all other persecutors of the Christian church, who have raised their hands against the servants of God, who desecrated holy places and destroyed God's temples and tortured believers...
...Committee. At a cost of up to $445 million over the next four years, the bill would provide funds for new equipment, subsidies for money-losing operations, and an office within the Department of Transportation to manage basic passenger services-in effect, a quasi-nationalized system. The plan is anathema to most proponents of private enterprise; yet, as even the railroads concede, it seems to be the only way that the U.S. can regain the quality of railroad passenger service that Europe and Japan still enjoy...