Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most of the nation, TIME correspondents found that the size and vitality of the M-day turnout exceeded dispassionate expectations. Even in the Midwestern heartland, reported Chicago Bureau Chief Champ Clark, "so many of these folks?far from being professional liberals or agitators or youths simply trying to avoid the draft?were pure, straight middle-class adults who had simply decided, in their own pure, straight middle-class way, that it was time for the U.S. to get the hell out of the war in Viet...
What, then, does such a playwright think he is doing? His rationale is that he is providing a cautionary moral lesson drawn from history that will enable people to avoid past errors and evils. Unfortunately, the profoundly ironic lesson of history is that people do repeat the errors and evils of the past, over and over and over again. The reality these playwrights ignore is that man is a finite being, bound always to act and react within the limits of his nature, "a fallen creature" in religious terms. If the human character could be altered and improved...
...decades, the group says that "many homosexuals are good citizens, holding regular jobs and leading productive lives." Psychiatric treatment permits about 30% of adults who seek help to enjoy a normal sex life. An even larger percentage of children who are incipient homosexuals can be reached in time to avoid the condition entirely...
...Allston families yesterday afternoon gained another day in their attempt to avoid eviction by the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) when Judge Francis J. W. Ford '04 recesed the hearing on the case until 10 a.m. today...
Truffaut goes out of his way of avoid any kind of tight dramatic construction. Many incidents-such as Antoine's chance meetings on the street with old friends -have no apparent purpose and bear no particular relation to any other part of the film, but are incredibly life-like because of their irrelevance. This looseness of construction is another distinct feature of the Nouvelle Vague. The unimportance of a plot as such allows the director to explore people's relations and the development of their character without having to worry about logical dramatic sequence. It is the experimental reinterpretation...