Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NONFICTION 1. How to Avoid Probate, Dacey...
...random sampling of students showed a tendency to avoid any discussion of U.S. foreign policy, but when they were pressed on the issue they would generally point to the Dominican Republic episode as indicative of our strong-arm tactics. Many of the students felt that although the U.S. is generous with its aid and loans to the "developing nations," there are too many strings attached, and that too much money comes under the condition that it be used to buy U.S. goods...
...suspense fails because the audience's attention is allowed to wander from the heroes, Paul Newman and Julie Andrews, to the previously unseen leader of an underground group. Also, the suspense menace (another pursuing bus) is not made convincingly menacing. The climactic theatre sequence where Newman and Andrews avoid the East Berlin police by creating a fire disturbance shows Hitchcock efficiently going through his paces--he has filmed variations of the same scene in four earlier pictures--but without his usual inventiveness. The final ocean-liner scene, where the fleeing physicists are found hiding in the costume baskets...
Academic. He does not question President Johnson's "painful, consistent" desire to avoid military defeat while "resisting proposals to enlarge the conflict." And though he wrote his book before the U.S. struck the petroleum targets at Haiphong and Hanoi, he foresaw that the President would find it necessary to move "imperceptibly" in the direction of more blows against North Viet...
...Roper, he's a lawyer! And my case is watertight!" Faced with the possibility of a test oath. More, good lawyer that he is, wants to see the statute--"But what is the wording?...It will mean what the words lay!...It may be possible to take it. Or avoid it. Have we a copy of the Bill?" Enough laws are still planted in England. More thinks, for him to stand whatever winds may blow. The sources that tell us of More's life--his books, his letters, the life by son-in-law Roper, those by the mysterious...