Word: sacrosanct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beyond the Fringe chips away at petrified people, calcified clichés, and sacrosanct cows with remarkable satiric finesse. Four young and infectiously funny Englishmen perform the iconoclastic surgery...
Spreading steadily in the Ivy League is a resistance movement against overreliance on objective tests in deciding who gets in. Last week the movement got new support from Columbia's undergraduate admissions director, Henry S. Coleman, who voiced some doubts about the most sacrosanct test of all, the college board verbal aptitude exam...
...essential things that a democracy must continue to strive for. By withholding information about the Soviet build-up, about the United States reaction, and about the scope of Castro's internal policy, the press displayed a lack of confidence in its readers, and made of government policy something sacrosanct. When the press and the public failed to ask whether the Administration could have adopted different tactics toward the imposing of the blockade--or whether it might have displayed a different attitude towards the Castro regime in general--the President became, for a week at least, our infallible leader...
Ladies swish and titter in rooms once sacrosanct to cognac and cigars. Clubs that once disdained "activities" now stage musical evenings, lectures, seminars and even dances to lure members and their guests to the board and bar. Membership rolls have been expanded while services have been curtailed; a drink costs as much as or more than it does at the restaurant around the corner, and many a club member is doing well to get a ham sandwich on a summer weekend...
...heat of the Commonwealth controversy, few Britons recall that its sacrosanct trade ties started as a marriage of convenience-and have lately proved increasingly inconvenient. Since the 1880s, British politicians have dreamed of the Empire as a competition-proof common market that would forever absorb British manufactured goods and supply cheap raw materials in exchange. But it never worked that way. In 1962, as Richard Cobden protested in the early 19th century, the Commonwealth is, in purely economic terms, "but a gorgeous and ponderous appendage to swell our ostensible grandeur without improving our balance of trade...