Word: sacrosanct
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...Vladimir Mayakovsky, one of the great heroes of Soviet literature, and thus saving him from "blowing up my own importance." Evoking contempt for Mayakovsky, Pasternak says that his work "was introduced by force, like potatoes under Catherine the Great." The liberal monthly Molodaya Gvardia recently attacked an even more sacrosanct Soviet idol, Maxim Gorky. It dismissed the author of The Lower Depths as nothing more than "a fairly good documentary journalist...
...fright. But there is more to the Green Beret village than shooting. The Thais learn the guerrilla's subtleties: an escape tunnel beneath the village huts, a cache of arms buried under the little shrine of a phi spirit house, which all but Thai Communists might consider sacrosanct. The Thais value their tough training all the more because each graduating company is immediately sent into the northeast to meet the real foe face to face...
...belief that medicine, art, business, religion, education and many other aspects of everyday life that were largely ignored by the daily press were all newsworthy in themselves, made the magazine a success almost from the start. Most important of all was its founders' guiding concept that the newspaperman's sacrosanct "objectivity" was a myth. Asked once why TIME did not present "two sides to a story," Luce replied: "Are there not more likely to be three sides or 30 sides...
...field once used by the elite socialites of National Guard Squadron A, since their former quarters in the 94th Street Armory were torn down to make way for a new junior high school. The obvious answer was Central Park, but New Yorkers have come to regard the park as sacrosanct, have fiercely resisted any infringement, including even the philanthropic offer of Huntington Hartford to build a terraced cafe in one corner. The solution, as proposed by the competition-winning architectural firm of Kelly & Gruzen: bury the facilities underground. Key elements in the $5,700,000 scheme, which will leave...
...womens colleges were invented to serve the unique function of preparing women to compete on unequal terms in a socially unacceptable race. The evolution of women's rights has made the underlying assumption of this special preparation obsolete. This need for the elimination of some of the formerly sacrosanct aspects of the traditional women's college has created an ambivalence in the Wellesley administration toward structural change. Compared to the drastic revolution in women's rights over the last 30 years in the United States, surprisingly little social change has come to Wellesley. And what has changed has done...