Word: sacrosanctity
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...China, on welfare reform, on devaluation, he moved the country to abandon positions long outdated and toward steps long overdue. In so doing, he also destroyed some once sacrosanct myths and shibboleths. The result in the U.S. was a greater sense of reality and of scaled-down expectations; given the temper of the times he inherited, that was mostly to the good. The ultimate judgment of his presidency will depend on how he manages to live within the new reality he himself tried to define?and on whether history accepts his definition...
Streeter's theory, sacrosanct in liberal Protestant scholarship for four decades, has come under some attack in recent years. Southern Methodist's William R. Farmer, in his book The Synoptic Problem, maintains that the Mark theory was based not so much on conclusive proof from the Gospel texts as on a desire for a neat, scientific solution to satisfy a scholarly predilection for evolution: the more primitive Mark evolving into the smoother, more elaborated Matthew and Luke. Farmer returns to a sequence proposed by Griesbach: Matthew, then Luke, then Mark. Farmer's critics ask why Mark would...
...freeze. When the National Education Association made a telephone survey of 63 school systems in metropolitan areas last week, it found that all but 22 of them had made cuts in their programs. In Shedd's own Philadelphia, budget cuts this spring threatened to eliminate that most sacrosanct of activities, varsity football. The owner of the Philadelphia Eagles obligingly donated $79,000 to save the jocks, but this grandstanding gesture makes only a small dent in the overall deficit, which has forced the elimination of 600 teaching jobs, trimmed remedial reading, and axed all but five of 31 programs...
...something was wrong with the Soviet system, but he could not break through its intellectual and institutional limits. It was clear that agriculture needed radical reform, but Khrushchev's seemingly revolutionary programs for dealing with the problem were in fact rather superficial. He even tried to reorganize the sacrosanct party structure, but every scheme failed...
...Times become so sacrosanct that it is considered above the Government and the welfare of the country? If its actions are now condoned, that will automatically give license to anyone who chooses to rifle Government security material according to his own judgment...