Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they would let either of them drown-as happened to a 19th century Queen of Thailand. The royal barge sank after a collision, but no one dared offer a helping hand. When occasionally it was necessary to execute a royal personage, he was put inside a red bag, to avoid touching him, and beaten to death with a sandalwood stick wrapped in silk. Ordinary sentence of death in modern Thailand is meted out by machine gun following sentences of the courts. But with Buddhist reverence for life and typical Thai indirection, the condemned is concealed behind a curtain on which...
...foreign policy these days. Kosygin's trip, after all, was his first planned foray abroad since he took over as Premier 19 months ago. The harsh confrontations that once were Moscow's hallmark from Berlin to the Caribbean no longer occur. Instead the Russians seem anxious to avoid direct conflict with the U.S. Still, the Russian rulers have to maintain anti-imperialist face in order to argue convincingly against their Red Chinese ideological rivals. That task fell last week to Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev...
...effect is that of making Mondrian's Boogie-Woogie paintings swing. Agam calls his works "contrapuntals," has even named one Homage to Johann Sebastian Bach for its fugue of color. He uses this oblique approach, he says, to avoid the Judaic religious restrictions on graven images. "In flux, one cannot perceive reality, but only a part of it," he says. As a result, his works may not stand alone impressively enough as masterpieces, but they seem a magnificently practical way to transform blank-walled, vast public wastelands and enormous rooms into lively and provocative architectural gardens...
...moment. Hudgins seems to be trying to avoid the choice by appealing both to some Harlemites through the churches, and to some non-Harlem business by remaining a moderate. If this strategy wins him only half hearted support from both groups, the bank will never have a chance to show what a soundly financed Negro bank might do for Negro areas such as Harlem. The perils of fence-sitting in banking are considerably greater than almost any other kind of fence-sitting, for there is no comeback from failure
Arthur Hill plays much the same part in Harper that Walter Matthau played in Charade. He's so mild-mannered you can't avoid suspecting him, but Hill in any guise is marvelous...