Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...architecture and short-sighted community planning in the country. Architectural styles from Georgian to Victorian to Late Depression jostle each other in the Yard and elsewhere, and buildings are often placed in the most inconvenient and inaccessible arrangements conceivable. Dean Sert's task requires more than an attempt to avoid any further unfortunate arrangement. To him is entrusted the fearsome task of bringing order out of chaos...
...surgeon in the group, Francis D. Moore '35, M.D., Moseley Professor of Surgery, in discussing the relation of the surgeon to the patient, said that the surgeon, more than other types of physicians, must be able to avoid too great an emotional involvement with his patients in order to practice effectively...
...Avoid Insult." Around and about these capabilities and problems there is gathering an acute awareness of the importance of the military-diplomatic role. "So we're the big stick," said one SAC officer. "So maybe old Dulles thinks of us when he sits down at the mahogany." And when Admiral Radford one day paraphrased Teddy Roosevelt, "Never extend a military projection beyond its capability of winning," one of his officers echoed afterwards: "Substitute 'diplomatic' for 'military' and you have a currently valid statement. In fact, you have a policy...
...said as he confronted the turbulence of the Old World and got the American Experiment on the way. "There is a rank due to the United States among nations," said Washington, "which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be ready to repel it." Then Arthur Radford, the quiet admiral, adds the postscript that is his life: "The more our country sweats in peace, the less it will bleed...
...direction of the Combined Charities Drive, it should, profiting from this year's example, exercise far more caution in the selection of a chairman. The Council has generally shown itself lacking in backbone, but its retreat before the threat of resignation by this year's leader was ignominious. To avoid such unfortunate, if not degrading incidents, in the future, the Council should screen its potential agents with care, and exercise a firm control over his activities once he has been appointed. It is now too late to remedy the failure of the 1957 campaign, but there is no reason...