Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Over there you roll over long sloping patters without a trace of trees," he said, "while over here you have to gangue your turns accurately, often to the split second, in order to avoid ending up sixteen feet in the woods...
...scientists to educate the American people against all false and unscientific doctrines, "such as the racial nonsense of the Nazis," as Boas put it. Agents of Fascism were seen to be increasingly active, and Boas urged that his colleagues join with men of "good will" to defend democracy, and avoid the fate which was meted out to men like Albert Einstein, James Franck, and Thomas Mann...
...occur when politics butts in: the 39th season of Portland's Tuesday Afternoon Club started badly this year when Mrs. Edward Pelton's review of America's Sixty Families created so much dissension that the club decided to quit talking about books on current subjects. To avoid such regrettable incidents the conservative Portland Study Club chooses titles with great care, likes Pearl Buck's novels or such works as Bertita Harding's life of Franz Joseph of Austria, Golden Fleece, which Mrs. R. Roy Palmer reviewed last month...
...thing Michael proves is that Goebbels was a worse novelist than Hitler was a painter. It also reveals why Goebbels takes so much interest in Nazi novels. A few established novelists, like Hans Fallada, whose Wolf Among Wolves (Putnam, $3) was published last month, avoid such mystical propaganda. But Goebbels eggs on young writers (more than 100 new authors have popped up in the last five years), while older ones like Fallada go on writing just as they did before Germany's least talented author became the director of her literary life...
...fake War record, headaches and schizophrenia constitute excellent personal assets for a dictator. He explains how these handicaps can be turned into heroic myths, explains how to fight Socialism with the catch phrases of Socialism, how to provoke disorder and terror as a pretext to establish order, how to avoid all argument based on rationality, how to exploit the plentiful relics of primitive barbarism which still survive in modern man, and thus turn to Fascist account a Freudian discovery which Socialists naively underrated...