Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aspiring and available young men who would be glad to take the burden of inter-House membership. These are just the kind of twerp politico types that the Student Council should not include in its membership. The reason Masters should appoint students is just that it is desirable to avoid the slick and often incompetent student-elected representatives, and to get more capable men in the student government...
Less purely fundamental work has found itself subjected to similar ill-treatment. The composer deBreville wrote of his colleague Chausson: "He had no reason to fear or avoid vulgarity for he knew not what it was." And then the legions of Hollywood score composers came along and bled Franck, Chausson and company for all they were worth. It takes a pure mind not to find traces of "movie-music" in Chausson. But Chausson is not responsible for what happened; nor are the worshippers of the African jungles or of Oceania responsible for what became of their religious expression...
...that the administration's reasons and its policy toward the student newspaper be brought out in the open. The provost, Admiral Richard E. Conolly, replied that the editorial was "damaging to the faculty and in bad taste." Tlumak received a letter from the Administration asking for his resignation "to avoid further occurrences," and he complied. Tlumak resigned, he said, "to prevent any faculty or administration from censoring material published in the newspaper...
...Wheeler emphasized the fact that as Harvard expands, it cannot avoid causing friction. "Cambridge residents see pieces of good property going off the tax rolls for Harvard buildings," she said, "and the University is forced to go against many present zoning regulations...
Anticipating Nasser's propagandists, Bourguiba said defiantly: "Yes, I am Western, and I will remain so." Tunisia's pro-Western policy, he said, "has enabled us to avoid many troubles." Nasser, he declared, is "not aware of the danger of Communism. Once the Iron Curtain drops, there is no escape...