Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personnel departments place most of the blame on the draft for the recent slack in interested college graduates. Those not being drafted want to go on to graduate schools to avoid having to serve and to complete as much education as possible...
Also on last week's U.N. agenda: choosing a successor to U.N. Secretary Trygve Lie, who is resigning after seven years because of Russian disfavor. His successor must 1) get the votes of at least seven of the eleven Security Council members; 2) avoid a veto by one of the permanent Big Five (U.S., Britain, France, China, Russia); 3) secure ratification by two-thirds of the General Assembly...
...Unknown Prisoner, Butler chose something between abstraction and realism: a forbiddingly cold and empty structure, rising like some futuristic television antenna, with three grieving women looking up from beneath. Butler thinks that his symbolism suits a monument far better than any standard, realistic figure. Says he: "You must avoid the reaction, 'Oh, poor chap, he does look thin.' And if I made a statue of a god, it would be a big man or a small man with a big tummy or a flat tummy. So to make an image, I conceive a prisoner who is invisible...
Representative Kenneth B. Keating (R-N.Y.) must have shocked many politicians last week when he announced that his committee would avoid character defamation. While his group, a House Judiciary Subcommittee, is relatively insignificant, the rules that it adopted point to the eventual return of prestige to all congressional investigating groups...
First, these rules automatically avoid the inquisition methods so prevalent in many investigations. The checks on most committees are loose enough to permit abuse of any witness' individual freedom. Under this system, many committees have become one-sided tribunals, constantly accusing, but giving their victims no chance to defend themselves. If the rules were tightened, much of this sensationalism would give way to honest investigation...