Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...These graduate students," states Shaplin, "have a hypercritical attitude towards school. Most of them have gone through pretty rigorous educational competition, and they want to avoid this for their kids. There is a terrifically protective atmosphere in this regard, for they want their children to go to nothing but the best...
...situation more clearly than the early works of Paul Klee. The etchings Head of Menace and Virgin in a Tree are works of quality and excellent draughtsmanship, yet their overbearing concern for the histrionics of their subject matter works against them. Moreover, the later Klees in the exhibit avoid histrionics, as their subject matter is relegated to a whimsical leitmotif, subordinated to the wholly poetic studies in color and shape. This latter group incidentally has long represented Klee in exhibitions of the so-called French school. They are works whose universal qualities transcend the mannerisms of any one idiom...
...case of the Student Council it produces a heterogeneous body of undergraduates who, no matter how able in their individual fields, are seldom capable of even a normal performance of what should be the duties of Student Council members, and who exert all their scrupulosity to avoid anything so compromising as action...
...threat from Russia does not lie in overt aggression, but from aggression in the economic, political and psychological fields . . . The concern I have tonight is that while we are, as we should be, putting emphasis on military strength, we might fail to develop what we need to do to avoid losses in other fields . . . There are many differences among the uncommitted countries of the world, but they all want economic progress, and they want it quickly...
...tiny, bespectacled racketeer politely pulled the Fifth Amendment to more than 100 questions, but the committee's evidence appeared to be solid enough. As a member of the so-called Mafia (the ancient Sicilian vendetta society that some authorities claim is running U.S. racketeering), Squillante always managed to avoid deep trouble, although his address book produced the names of such crooks as Joey Surprise, Nanny the Geep and Joe Stutz. He got caught only once, on an income-tax rap. He solved that, the committee charged, by having his boys extract $57,855 from two cartmen's groups...