Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo the rich were madly spending to avoid tomorrow's tax, and the poor were madly striking to pay tomorrow's bills. No one knew what tomorrow's yen might be worth...
Last week Mack, complaining that he had "been in the hands of others," announced a new strategy for giving away $25,750 a year without getting slapped for doing it. Pepsi's 1946 contest will have a new name: "Paintings of the Year" (to avoid the taunts of jingoism that "Portrait of America" got); a new director: balding, milk-mild Roland McKinney, ex-director of Los Angeles' County Museum. There will still be plenty of prize money ($15,250), but also seven "fellowships in painting" ($10,500), so that winners can go and do better...
...ethics of the use of the bomb. Some condemned its use on a civil population. Others were of the view that in total war there was no essential difference between civilians and soldiers, and that the bomb itself was an effective force, warning Japan to surrender and thus to avoid total destruction. It seems logical to me that he who supports total war in principle cannot complain of a war against civilians...
...Hansenne has conscientiously tried to avoid the pitfalls-overeating and high living-which threaten the path of every visiting foreign athlete. He does not smoke, prefers milk to whiskey, tries to be in bed by 8 p.m., cannot understand why there is no horse-steak oh U.S. menus. On his one nightclub excursion, he got a satisfying eyeful of American girls, cautiously explained: "It does not harm to look, no?" A rabid jazz fan, he keeps his hotel-room radio going steadily for entertainment, sings above it his current favorite-"The Hatchayson, Topeka and the Santa...
...authors of "Deep Are the Roots" have developed the characters irresistibly from their original stereotypes, subjecting them to the pressure of real actions which avoid the sublimity of the preacher's vocabulary, to a conclusive point, neither too ruddy nor too sombre, where everyone squares himself within the world he is about to face. Whether the force within the play carries over the footlights into the audience is another matter...