Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About seven out of ten teachers said that they were "cautious" about the magazines and books they read. Four out of ten admitted that they tended to "avoid" such topics as the New Deal, public housing, McCarthy, Communism. Some teachers (21½%) even expressed concern over talking about the Bill of Rights and the Fifth Amendment. A few (17%) were definitely afraid of "being spied upon" by loyalty investigators. Whether such timidity is justified, the Mirror did not say. But warranted or not, the unpleasant fact remained that of the teachers polled, one out of every two reported: "Teachers...
...other extreme are the more intellectually inclined House members who attend the forums and concerts which the athlets avoid, and who, in turn, take little interest in Straus Trophy competition, and often spurn the spirited cheering of football weekends...
...course, there are pitfalls in such a made of living. It is not hard to avoid meeting anyone "different" this way. In fact, it is not hard to avoid meeting anyone. As far as Eliot's alleged snobbishness is concerned, the freshman must choose between a sincerity and non-artificiality in friendship which still leaves open the opportunity to meet those who are different and a forced diversity and seemingly universal friendship. No one, who is himself interesting and friendly, will fail to find others like him, and who will like him in the House...
Construction of the three new buildings climaxed the College's march toward the river. Designed by Bullfinch in American Georgian, they were to avoid standardization, yet give a motley collection of University buildings some sense of continuity. Lowell residents, many of whose quarters are uniquely contorted, claim that President Lowell asked well-known artists to submit paintings of attractive buildings, then, picking out the one he liked best, he told Bullfinch to stick rooms...
...avoid overcrowding at the H.A.A., one plan has recommended ordering and distributing tickets through the Houses, with the House athletic secretary doing the leg work between the two distributors. Although more convenient for students, this plan would not solve the problem of possible loss and red-tape. More important, it would limit the spectator to sitting only with men from his own House. Now this might be the unifying experience sought since the beginning of the House system, but it is unpleasantly confining...