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Yes, Russell Long, the son of Huey Long, the flamboyant populist governor of Louisiana immortalized in All the King's Men . In the 1970s, Russell Long was anathema to most liberals, who viewed him as the major roadblock in the way of a more generous welfare state.
Exposure--of ignorance, of soft pink feet in a classroom of callused soles--is anathema.
All but Collins are running for re-election in 2000, and all represent states where the removal of Clinton is anathema.
"Islamists consider Islam to be as much a religion as an 'ideology,' a neologism which they introduced and which remains anathema to the ulamas (the clerical scholars)."
The cultural perception of what is taboo changes, from the Victorian avoidance of a word like leg , to the current sanction of television advertising of gear for the incontinent and menstruating, to the blatant public discussion of rape, incest, and other actions formerly anathema.