Word: avoided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ALTHOUGH THE FACULTY STRIKE now underway at Boston University is regrettable, the grievances are well-founded, and it is difficult to avoid concluding that the administration had it coming. The administration, headed by President John R. Silber, has been autocratic and repressive and last week the bottled-up frustration found an outlet in the strike...
...strike, of course, is a no-win situation. Each day Boston University remains closed costs the school huge amounts of money, and deprives the students of the education for which they have paid. The administration should ratify the negotiated contract, and avoid exacerbating the conflict needlessly. In particular, the support shown for the faculty by clerical and library workers should be respected by the administration. Further intransigence or retributive actions on the part of the administration will lead only to more trouble...
Arnolphe (Stephen Toope) is the quintessential insecure male chauvinist who wants his wife to be ignorant, simple and submissive. He fears clever, educated women, nearly all of whom, he is convinced, cheat on their husbands. So Arnolphe takes absurdly elaborate precautions to avoid being cuckolded: having adopted Agnes, the daughter of an impoverished peasant, Arnolphe has raised her in seclusion, isolated from the pernicious influences of education and interaction with intelligent people...
While awaiting the coming of spring, the golfer has to ward off his malaise with appropriate diversions. One of the most popular means to avoid the doldrums during the long winter months is to play "ice golf." Every year over two hundred golfers take part in the Chili Open Golf Classic that is played in Akron, Ohio in the dead of winter...
Warren thus became one of only a handful of federal judges ever to exercise "prior restraint," that is, ban a story before it is published. Trying to avoid this fateful step, he first suggested that an independent panel of two press representatives, two arms specialists and one jurist work out compromise deletions so the article could be printed. The Government was willing, but the magazine was not. Said Editor Erwin Knoll: "You can't mediate your First Amendment rights...