Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know that I kept hoping to avoid it? And you thought you could become, all by yourself, without the help of heaven, as great as me! Maybe over-shadow me? I didn't want anything--you hear me?--I didn't want what happened to me to happen. It was all given to me. A gift from God or the devil, but something I didn't want. And now, here we are with a corpse on our hands...
...entire play unfolds as in a dream ... The movement of the actors should be either heavy or else extremely and incomprehensibly rapid, like flashes of lightning. If they can, the actors should deaden the timbre of their voices. Avoid clever lighting. As much light as possible...
There are those who are genuinely involved in their studies but unable to qualify for Honors, others who want to avoid unnecessary undergraduate specialization, and the highly intelligent group whose orientation toward activities like theatre and writing precludes the undertaking, and often the desirability, of an Honors program. Ignoring these students would imply that the University considers lectures and Lamont a sufficient education for a sizeable number of its undergraduates...
...retracting his mind from all contact wtih his senses, the Hindu fails to extract the essence of all religion, and instead attempts to find the way to essential truth through his mystical vision. Newbigin declared that men are too much caught in the concentration of life to avoid its problems by inward contemplation...
Financially, General Telephone has managed to avoid the drop in per-share earnings that usually comes with the dilution of ownership through rapid expansion. In the first nine months of this year, General Telephone earned $36 million or $2.29 a share of common v. $33.8 million or $2.25 last year...