Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statement followed complaints from a substantial number of graduate students that the new meal prices unduly burdened transient diners. Students felt that breakfast and lunch prices should be raised more to avoid the tax on a dollar dinner...
...ideological conflict with Russia is concerned, Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, said that "time is on our side." "If we can avoid a police state--McCarthyism--we may well have a fairly pleasant period of peace ahead of us. Russia has frozen itself into a static state, while we have the fundamental strength and resiliency of self-government behind...
Excommunication. In the absence of precise knowledge, the Vatican has leaned over backward to avoid alarmist or inflammatory statements. In February, Zdenek Fierlinger, Czech Vice Premier, published an article in the weekly Parallèle 50 (named for Prague's latitude) in which he boasted that two Czech bishops, "loyal" to the government, had ordained as priests the first group produced by Catholic seminaries since control of these institutions was taken over by the Communist government. At the time, Rome refrained from any suggestion that the officiating bishops acted improperly...
...towering role of De Lawd, 27-year-old William Marshall brings physical Tightness and a proper dignity, but not the stature of the late William B. Harrison, and not the grandeur demanded by the part. The play itself, being highly episodic, can hardly avoid being uneven; and along with folk touches that seem genuine and fresh, go some that seem slick and laid on. But The Green Pastures in general is a stage piece that derives its vitality from something more far-reaching than the stage...
There are some good lines and scenes. But Springtime for Henry is at best a small, ironic British farce. It can't avoid being thin, but as now performed it also seems too cute. Where it should be as dry as a Martini, it is often as whimsical as A. A. Milne. Henry, who began as a mere part for Horton, is by now a part of him. He manages it well in a broad, mugging way; but it is not always a part of Springtime for Henry...