Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know less about the finer points of rugby than any other team on the East Coast, but for the last two years Harvard has ended a winning season with a loss to Yale. Tomorrow at 3 p.m. the Crimson will visit Loomis School, in Hartford, Conn., and try to avoid becoming the permanent property of the men from New Haven...
Even in their own ranks, Hearstlings managed to avoid sameness. Dorothy Kilgallen reported that "not once did the Prince look at his bride"; Bob Considine wrote that it was "only once." When the time came for the couple's responses, "both replied 'Oui' firmly . . . Miss Kelly in husky, throaty sincerity," according to the Herald Trib. But in the Times, "each assented with a virtually inaudible 'Oui.' " In any case, the ceremony lasted just 20 minutes (Considine), 16 minutes (Kilgallen), 40 minutes (Post), 15 "emotion-laden" minutes (New York News...
When Senator McCarthy refused last week to appear in Judge Bailey Aldrich's courtroom for the pending trial of Professor Wendell Furry, the Senator said he wanted to avoid giving Judge Aldrich a chance to repeat the "insult" he delivered to the Senate by refusing to uphold its contempt citation against Leon J. Kamin. The bitterness with which McCarthy accused the Judge of a lack of objectivity in "communist" cases, however, made it seem likely that the Wisconsin Senator was concerned more with his own dignity than that of the Senate, and was anxious to avoid a setback similar...
...faith; ecclesiastics are politicians . . . None surpass the prophets in serving God and disliking ecclesiastics." At his death in 1930, Uchimura had a huge and devoted following, but he stipulated in his will that neither his Bible class nor his magazine should be continued. Mukyokai, he insisted, had to avoid institutionalism of all kinds...
Uchimura's will has been defied, and his movement has gone on with giant strides. But so far, it has continued to avoid the institutionalizing he warned against. Mukyokai leaders, mostly in the schools and universities (including the last two presidents of Japan's leading university), acknowledge no church authority or structure. As individuals they publish more than 20 monthly magazines, mostly devoted to Bible studies, and hold informal meetings for small groups, usually consisting of prayer, hymn singing, and a lecture on a Biblical theme. Says U.S. Fulbright Scholar John Howes, who has made a special study...