Word: sacrosanctity
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...rather imagine that collective expert opinion would render TIME'S sacrosanct judgment subject to question . . . It is very probable that the Boston is not the "nation's finest" (except, of course, for the NBC Symphony, which is in a class by itself), nor is the Philadelphia the "world's greatest"-as it was hailed to be in Great Britain last summer. More likely . . . neither is sufficiently superior to" the other in all departments to warrant being called "THE BEST...
...endlessly with his cabinet. Everyone thought the other fellow's expenses could be cut, but did not see how his own department could struggle along on any less. Foreign Minister Bevin wanted to cut social services, Health Minister Aneurin Bevan insisted that his housing and health plans were "sacrosanct." Attlee tried to mollify everybody. He was still keeping strict secrecy when he took the plan to Buckingham Palace for the King's approval...
...know, Conspirator deals with the story of a 17-year-old girl who marries a major on active duty with His Majesty's Brigade of Guards. Despite the major's high position in the most sacrosanct military unit in the Empire, he is secretly in the Communist Party and giving military information to the Soviet. When his young wife learns of his treason she becomes a thorn in the side of the intelligence operation of the Russians in London, and the major is instructed to liquidate her lest more trouble follow...
...Harvard's sacrosanct Varsity Club, the Harvard first team sipped champagne-an old pre-game ritual. By tradition, the first toast is given by the captain of the last Harvard team to whip Yale (Fran Lee of the '41 team). But Lee failed to show up, and a substitute was pressed into service. It may have been a favorable omen. Next afternoon, on the first play of the game, a crimson-shirted Harvard halfback cut back through tackle and raced 80 yards to a touchdown...
...deans of the College, over whose desks the undergraduate's social problems must pass, have themselves repudiated this double standard. They admit that the parietal rules should not be set up on this basis of age. Yet they continue to treat these rules as something sacrosanct, and the harried undergraduate has learned to regard them as immutable law. The deans have only to look about them at their brother New England colleges and at the graduate schools of their own University to discover that their problem has a solution. If social life at Harvard is to be a normal life...