Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neat trick, since it automatically restores him to the audience's sympathies. But it beclouds the potentially fascinating problem of how a once-great man, three times almost President, would feel after an ignominious, even ridiculous, defeat. The collapse is only one example of the playwrights' constant tendency to avoid exploring deep, if difficult, human problems by escaping to the simple antitheses and effects of melodrama...
Clarence P. Randall, special assistant to President Eisenhower, last night urged students considering a business career to undertake "an all-purpose education" to avoid "locking one's life too early within the barriers of a specialty...
...should the Suez Canal he cleared? The job of removing the 47 sunken ships should be done under U.N. auspices. Danish and Norwegian salvage companies have already been contracted, and parts of the six-month job will be sublet among other countries. To avoid outbursts of Arab resentment, e.g., further sabotage of oil lines, the job should probably be done without the aid of Britain and France...
...goal," says Selye, "is certainly not to avoid stress. Stress is part of life. It is a natural byproduct of all our activities; there is no more justification for avoiding stress than for shunning food, exercise or love. But . . . you must first find your optimum stress level and then use your adaptation energy at a rate and in a direction adjusted to the innate structure of your mind and body." How? Dr. Selye boils down his prescription to a light jingle...
Service Exit. In Des Moines, the $52,000 damage suit that Hugh Warren Bascom brought against the Lloyd Hotel and two process servers was dismissed, in spite of his testimony that when he climbed out his third-floor window to avoid the process servers, and started lowering himself down the rope provided by the hotel as a fire escape, the rope broke...