Word: sacrosanct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ESTABLISHMENT. Nothing is sacrosanct to this sextet of deceptively urbane Britons except their right to boil big names and bigger isms in a cauldron of laughter...
...nonetheless takes irreverent delight in the impish indiscretion and bland ambivalence. When Eden's ditherings with economic and colonial problems stirred angry criticism in 1956, it was Butler who declared slyly: "He is the best Prime Minister we have." He once said that Britain's sacrosanct civil service is "a bit like a Rolls-Royce-you know it's the best machine in the world, but you're not quite sure what to do with it." His sallies have earned him a slightly uneasy reputation as a gifted intellectual in a party that looks askance...
...heat of the attack on the once-sacrosanct Nehru dismayed many Congress Party officials, and led to the resignation of six Cabinet ministers, who announced that they would concentrate on rejuvenating the party. The departing ministers were the strongest men on Nehru's team, although some were in political trouble. Among them were two strong pro-Westerners, Food Minister Patil and Finance Minister Morarji Desai, widely criticized for food shortages and high prices, as well as Home Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri, Nehru's likeliest successor...
...Letter. Under friendly questioning until 5 a.m., Profumo denied misconduct with Christine. He agreed to make a sacrosanct "personal statement," assuring the House that he had committed "no impropriety whatsoever" with Miss Keeler. His fellow ministers suggested that he admit at least to being "on friendly terms with her," although it "sounded so awful," as Profumo put it. "We insisted that it must be included," explained Macleod fatuously last week, "because it was part of the truth." Against himself and the four other ministers, Macleod added, "two possible charges can be brought. First, that we were conspiring knaves, and secondly...
Beyond the Fringe chips away at petrified people, calcified cliches and sacrosanct cows with remarkable satiric finesse. Four young and infectiously funny Englishmen perform the iconoclastic surgery...