Word: sacrosanctity
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...then, they are concerned with worldly things like income, furniture and football games. Their need for defined relationships is presented as a human one rather than an institutional one, and because of this presentation the stories gain dramatic force. But the offices of the Church are no longer sacrosanct. As a result, the traditional hierarchy has been permanently weakened. Even God is brough down to a mundane level. When the Bishop of Ostergothenburg tries to retrieve his authority, he investigates behind the new bishop's back reports of a miraculous visitation--but the divine message is only "Keep Minnesota Green...
Before closing, I would like to do what damage I could to two mythological beliefs about gay people. One is that your heterosexual body will be attacked by the crazed homosexual if you allow yourself to be in his presence. Your body will be closer to sacrosanct. The other myth is that beautiful women or handsome men are never homosexual or gay. This is not only false but implies that there is a genetic determination behind homosexuality, an assumption equally as false. If the reader can put these two myths behind her/him and all of the others as well, she/he...
...gold in Fort Knox (and other U.S. Treasury stashes) has long been regarded as a sacrosanct symbol of national wealth. Once it was available for purchase only by foreign-government bankers who wanted to redeem dollars that the U.S. insisted were as good as gold; later the U.S. Government would not sell it to anyone. Last week, though, the Treasury announced plans more in line with its current belief that gold has become a mere commodity. On Jan. 6 it will sell 2 million ounces of the glittery stuff at public auction to any purchasers, American or foreign, who care...
...second attitude makes rape possible. The first makes it impossible, almost literally, to be prosecuted. Both reinforce each other. By unconsciously defining the sacrosanct woman, belonging to her husband or father and chaste, men have thrust the majority of modern women into the other mold. A woman in control of her own life cannot be cast readily into the virgin/saint role. So she is cast into the role of whore. And in the mind of the rapist and in the courtroom she is no longer the victim, but the perpetrator: "She was asking for it," comes the matter-of-fact...
...demands of winter and spring for revolution by the masses have turned into summery reaffirmations of regular party authority. Indeed, the leadership of the party has been made nothing less than sacrosanct. As People's Daily recently put it, "Of the party, the government, the army, the mass organizations and the cultural and educational institutions, whether in the east, west, south, north or center of our country, it is the party that exercises overall leadership...