Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just what it is. For the moment, the government is content to let its bright new weapon hang for all to see. It let word leak out that next month's M.S.I, national convention would be permitted but carefully watched. Borghese sent word to the faithful to avoid the Fascist salute, the Fascist hymn and similar trappings...
...especially hard to avoid formulas and maintain flexibility of thought after leaving college. Here the decisions concerning one's vegetative life are nobly born by the Buildings and Grounds and the Dining Hall departments, leaving undergraduates with only weighty philosophical and moral matters to decide. On emerging into the "world" as opposed to the "university" one finds the opposite: the weighty decisions have alreday been made and the vegetative ones remain to be taken care of. This is the sort of situation where material planning must perforce dominate critical thinking, and it may well account for much of the distrust...
...struggle of this class is to avoid being placed into any neat scheme of things by either right or left," Ward said. "From a diverse, often a perverse world, we seek guides to action. 'Liberal' is once again a naughty word. Every generation must find its own philosophy. But today, the nightmare has replaced the dream as a vision...
Trying to avoid court bans became the college's spring fad. First the Liberal Club obtained Margaret Sanger, a devotee of birth controlled who had been banned by Mayor Curley, as a luncheon speaker...
With the angry cries of feuding Republicans still echoing from Texas, Bob Taft last week talked of compromise. To avoid a floor fight at the national convention, said Taft, "I'd like to compromise all delegate contests where there seems to be a difference of legal opinion . . . We'll give in where our case is weak, if they'll give in where their case is weak." But he added that the Eisenhower forces are "trying to make an issue" out of the Texas case. Said he: "I think they'd rather have the issue than...