Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whether you agree with Russell or not, it is a constant joy to be sure you know what he means by what he is saying. Even in reading Russell's most complex and difficult treatises, one never suspects him of trying to avoid an issue by throwing up a meaningless verbal smokescreen that will hide the obvious banality or falsehood of his views on certain points. This is the result of that slow, painful climb toward greater intellectual clarity which has been the life-work of Russell and his colleagues, Moore and Wittgenstein, and which some contemporary writing is doing...
...committee of 19 British theologians and sociologists appointed at the request of the Archbishop of Canterbury to study "the family in contemporary society" recommended in their 220-page report that the Church of England avoid opposing birth control. "The more we understand of our procreative powers," said the report, "the more responsible we are for the way in which we use them. If our conscience will not tolerate, when we know how to prevent it, a torrent of infant deaths, no more should we, with the knowledge we have, encourage an ungoverned spate of unwanted births...
...Norvo thrumming the vibraphone) that Maestro Goodman seemed to hit his old stride in syncopation so well arranged that it sounded like real jazz improvisation. His big band was helped little by a welter of panoramic views of its members, a well-intended effort by NBC to avoid a favorite TV bromide: closeup shots of musicians' tortured faces. Swing succeeded chiefly in establishing that Goodman's big-band brand of swing will probably never die because it has never been very much alive, will still be played in all those softly lit hotel restaurants for people who would...
Toohy also requested yesterday that students belonging to the Owl and Fly clubs avoid parking on the sidewalks bordering Holyoke Place during the weekend, so that cars coming to the Lowell House Opera can get through the streets...
...Department of English will probably offer seven new half courses next year, it was learned yesterday. Five of these stressing interconnections of the periods and genres in English Literature, appear to be in line with the Department's new policy to avoid hard and fast categories...