Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though Representative Dondero didn't say so, there was an even simpler way than reading newspapers and gabbing to avoid listening to speeches in the House, That was to stay away. Only about 40 of the 435 Congressmen were on hand when Dondero spoke...
...summer, in Harbin, Asian Communist delegates met to receive certain instructions from Moscow. One of the speakers was Li Lisan, Mao's old rival, and now presumed to be Red boss of Manchuria. Said Li ominously: "Some of our comrades in Asia have been in error . . . We must avoid at all costs the spread of nationalistic Communism in Asia. We cannot tolerate a Tito in Asia...
...legitimate striving for freedom and independence." That striving, when thwarted, results in a "destructive passion" which must be suppressed. The suppression, in turn, often leads to neuroses in later life. Freud believed that the mother-son Oedipus complex was inevitable. Fromm thinks that there is a way to avoid the father-son Oedipus complex: let parents be less domineering, and let them have more respect for a child's rights...
...20th-century version of the home town of Myles Standish, William Bradford, and John Alden will go up three miles from its original site, however, to avoid "doing violence" to present day Plymouth...
...featured with "Rogues Regiment" is a Hollywood heartwarmer entitled "Big city." It features the cop on the Beat (George Murphy), a good-hearted gamin (Butch Jenkins), and sundry other people you want to avoid. Worst of all it has Margaret O'Brien. This observer has always felt that M-G-M's Margaret is an ill-tempered, abnormal, sniveling little wretch; the sooner she reaches the awkward age the better...