Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wasted no hand-wringing on fears that his Formosa action might bring a larger war. "There is but one sure way to avoid total war," said he, "and that is to win the cold war." By implication he acknowledged that the U.S. would have to take risks, no matter what its policies. "While retaliatory power is one strong deterrent to a would-be aggressor, another powerful deterrent is defensive power, [and] total defensive strength must include civil-defense preparedness. Because we have incontrovertible evidence that Soviet Russia possesses atomic weapons, this kind of protection becomes sheer necessity...
Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, admitted that the attitude which Conant discusses is prevalent on the national scene, but said, "Teaching in the humanities at Harvard generally tries to avoid both the collector's point of view and the attitude of unenlightened scholarship...
...relevance today. He has watched, across the centuries, the hallucinations of children and the hearsay of grownups swell to an epidemic of accusations and arrests, confessions and hangings. In that unhappy time, any human doubt or protest was called the work of the devil, and the one way to avoid punishment lay in confession of guilt. In the foreground of this Bay Colony drama stands a young wife accused of witchcraft by a slut with whom her husband has sinned, with the husband, at the end, going forth...
...Monk in the World. The result of all this, according to Critic Graham, is a dangerous oversimplification. He disapprovingly quotes some of Merton's advice to his readers-"Do everything you can to avoid the amusements and the noise and the business of men ... do not read their newspapers ... do not bother with their unearthly songs." In short-Graham summarizes-"become a Trappist-Cistercian monk while living in the world...
...little wonder that the Dining Halls wished to avoid publicity on the sign-off fiasco. It is arbitrary, needless, and inequitable. Anyone who wished to travel home on long weekends, or leave College after his last spring exam, or get a change of atmosphere between terms faces culinary double jeopardy. Unless, of course, he takes along box lunches...