Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fostering of understanding of "the ethical principles which ought to regulate human begins" is necessary if we are to avoid destruction by men "who are essentially barbarian, despite impressive technical proficiency," Kirk continues...
Unlike J. D. Salinger's stories, The Little Fugitive deals with a child who is more usual than unique. In the title role, Richie Andruseu, a Brooklyn seven-year-old, believe that he has killed his twelve-year-old brother. To avoid the police, he escapes by subway to coney Island where the mechanics of the plot almost vanish and the delightful swagger and expressions of Andruseu emerge. AT first he saunters along the amusement park pavement in awe--youthfully oblivious to the crime he thinks he has committed. Subtly, the camera follows him through the unsympathetic crowds...
...Depends on Ike. This makes the Democratic position somewhat delicate. The Democrats are aware of Eisenhower's continued popularity, aware also that his prestige may drop sharply if the coming session of Congress gives an impression of being lost and leaderless. Accordingly, the Democrats want to avoid opposing Eisenhower, and at the same time they want to encourage all possible dissensions in his party. At the first session, the Democrats had some luck with this tactic. Although hotter heads now demand a frontal attack on Eisenhower, wily Democratic Senate Leader Johnson counsels waiting to see how Eisenhower makes...
...should all be joining hands to achieve our recovery and to show our friends as well as our adversaries in the world a united strength and a resolute soul . . . After her great tragedies, the nation must in effect find herself again so as to recreate her power and avoid new tragedies...
...from the East Side. The U.S. was good to the family of thankful refugees. A third child, Gitel (Augusta), was born in 1908. Two years later the Rickovers left Manhattan's seething East Side and moved to Chicago. Prosperous enough to avoid the slums, they settled in respectable Lawndale. They never went hungry again. Father Abraham always had work as a tailor. In 1919 he started a small garment factory, which he sold in 1946. Now he owns an apartment house on Chicago's North Side. Though 79 and comfortably fixed, he still plugs away as a tailor...