Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discourses. At present, however, a number of Harvard graduates get honors degrees without writing theses, through the program of Cum Laude in General Studies. While CLGS is often used to allow people with low marks as lowerclassmen to write theses, it also allows people with high marks to avoid this particular intellectual exercise. Given the original nature of honors, it seems a distortion to give them to people who do not write theses in fields in which they are at all practicable...
...rally will end at 7:45 p.m. to avoid conflict with the Godkin lecture at 8. Chester Bowles, the Godkin lecturer will also speak to the Young Democratic Club tomorrow...
...when Reed arrives in his grey-carpeted office on the twelfth floor of the marble-pillared American Express Building at 65 Broadway, he plunges straight into dictation. By the time the vice presidents arrive-no later than 9 a.m. if they want to avoid Reed's wrath -a drift of yellow memos has usually settled over their desks. Even on trips by car or train, Reed pores through his briefcase, dictating to a secretary...
...Studio One's courtroom thriller, 12 Angry Men), Bob's income was dwindling until in 1954 George Burns of Burns & Allen suggested the new series that has become the Bob Cummings Show. In it, Bob is a dame-happy bachelor photographer whose major problems are to avoid marriage while at the same time trying to find a husband for his widowed sister (Rosemary De Camp), who does not particularly want one. The show is nearly as slapstick as the My Hero series, but considerably funnier, and Bob has an excellent foil for his own comedy routines...
...other fields, many professors, deeply immersed in the complexities of their specialties, feel that any particular orientation would distort history and disfigure art. Knowing all the brambles which invalidate any particular theoretical path, they search for a close approximation of scholarly objectivity. This seems important, not only to avoid spoonfeeding ovine undergraduates, but also because in a world of rapid fluctuation, the only truth is a relative one, the only value, one which is changing...