Word: sanctum
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...ALWAYS cherished the ideal of undying love. Even if hidden in some sanctum of the mind or heart, immutable fidelity can redeem life's most tragic events or a person's most serious character flaws. Without this great love, the inspiration behind the sonnets of Shakespeare and Rilke, man is reduced to animal, functional but not transcendant, efficacious but not lasting...
...probably his determination to order yet another shake-up of the party apparatus at the coming November plenum of the Central Committee. This time it was to involve not only mid- level apparatchiki but higher cadre as well. Thus he encroached upon the holy of holies, the sanctum of the ruling class. Khrushchev's meddling could no longer be tolerated...
...seldom experience any of those indignities. For them, banking has become more convenient and financially rewarding than ever before. At the Manufacturers Hanover headquarters at 270 Park Avenue in New York City, customers with a net worth of more than $ 1 million carry out their transactions in an inner sanctum with dark paneled walls and deep-green carpeting. At least two officers familiar with the individual's finances are on hand so that the customer can borrow $500,000 for, say, a vacation home with little more difficulty than a regular depositor might have in cashing a check. When...
...course, some users do require dedicated systems and in such cases security can approach a scene from a James Bond novel. A television reporter, conducted recently into the inner sanctum of an international bank's computer center described the trip as follows: "We went up a special elevator to a floor where the walls were covered with lead panelling three feet thick. As we got out of the elevator and started walking down an empty corridor my friend said to me 'we're being watched.' I looked up and saw three television cameras following us. We went through a door...
...Justices more often follow the dictates of legal precedent or their own consciences. The public's only real influence on the high court comes through its power to elect Presidents, who appoint the Justices, and Senators, who confirm them. Once a Justice enters the court's sanctum, he can stay for life.* The high court that begins its traditional nine-month term this week is a gerontocracy: five of the nine Justices are 75 or older. Not since Franklin Roosevelt railed against the Nine Old Men almost 50 years ago have the Justices been so aged...