Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thomas suggested that Israeli immigration should be more moderate and take into account the feelings of the Arab nations, explaining "We must learn to compromise and live with our neighbors in peace if we are to avoid total destruction." He also contended, "the world should attempt to "secure the right of every individual to live peacefully wherever he wants," rather than segregate Jews in a particular geographic area...
...basis of this system is the row--the twelve tones of the tempered scale set in a particular order by the composer. Once he picks a row, he can manipulate it in countless ways and at the same time avoid any suggestion of tonality, since each note is equal, i.e. none of them is emphasized as tonality emphasizes its main tone, its resting point. A substantial part of the system's appeal to composers lies in its highly organized nature: the destruction of the complex system of tonal relations seems to demand another complicated set of rules. Schoenberg, the twelvetone...
...trying to prepare American students who will go to the festival so that they can avoid being used by the Communist sponsors and so that they will be able to improve foreign students' understanding of American," Miss Steinem explained...
Without judging casualness as a standard of action, one can notice its effects when applied with rigor as an intellectual guide. The resolute determination to avoid enthusiasm in criticism can easily turn into a consistent refusal to be pleased. While the student avoids a potentially embarassing epousal of a cause, he is amply protected when on the attack, being free to concentrate on the weaknesses which can be found even in geniuses. The technique of isolating certain elements for criticism is never used to praise an author or defend a position, but is common when breaking down a work...
...goes against every Harvard grain: it is not characteristic of the East; it appears incompatible with scepticism; and it is ultimately blocked by self-consciousness. It is essentially an enthusiastic attitude. Kindness finds even stronger opposition at Harvard: even taken in its deepest sense, not as a wish to avoid causing pain, but as a constant consideration and valuation of feelings, it contradicts the most sacred critical canons. It is thought to be a sign of the rankest tender-mindedness and most erroneous subjectivity, a barrier to any sort of harsh truth...