Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rest of the world, including Russia, scientific information obtained from IGY programs, so it seemed desirable, to the NSC (and to IGY scientists too) to keep Vanguard from getting deeply involved with top-secret military programs. Also, Administration policymakers, in a fit of touchiness about neutralist opinion, wanted to avoid any appearance of using IGY undertakings for military purposes...
...Biblical injunctions against female equality, such as St. Paul's in the first Epistle to the Corinthians: "Let your women-keep silence in the churches : for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience . . .'' Women Theologians? Seeking to avoid an open split between the old guard and the church's young, liberal pastors, ailing Archbishop Yngve Brilioth, primate of the state church, suggested that the Bible does not absolutely forbid women clergy men and that "I do not consider it unthinkable that the Swedish church will...
William M. Rand '09, chairman of the fund, said last night that the fund would operate in a relatively quiet manner until the Program for Harvard College has completed most of its publicity work. He emphasized that the Medical Center Fund must be careful to avoid becoming confused with the $82.5 million drive for the College...
...avoid "the invasions of the birds," Nivola keeps his bas-reliefs fairly flat, but the play of sunlight and shadow over their pocked, planed, humped and dovetailed surfaces gives an illusion of depth, elaborate richness and almost of motion. Their apparent coolness is partly compensated by an underlying Sardinian warmth. Sculptor Nivola's most abstract conceptions are based on careful sketches of his wife, his children and their dog; they hint, vaguely but happily, at life in the flesh...
Most French Catholics bridled at the Vatican's action. Le Monde spoke of "an authoritarianism which the French momentarily have trouble accepting." But the French bishops formally admitted their errors, issued a statement that, "to avoid all misunderstanding, one will not use the expression 'progressive catechism.' " The Holy Office decided that withdrawal of the catechism would not be necessary, ordered insertions correcting "Formal errors," last week sent stern Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani "to work out a lasting compromise in the vexed question of religious teaching in France...